topic Re: Movie/TV Series on Pet Hoarding in Pet Lovers

Movie/TV Series on Pet Hoarding

RinaRina — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 16:44:41 GMT

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Type "Animal Hoarding" in search bar.

I know there's a TV & Movies thread, but this is specifically about "pets".

Re: Movie/TV Series on Pet Hoarding

Big Joanie — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 16:48:00 GMT

I saw this ... trying to see if I can get up the courage to watch ...

negative programs with animals and children are hard for

me ....

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Love my grandkids — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 16:49:51 GMT

There's no way I could watch this. It would make me sick and would break my heart.

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RinaRina — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 17:54:59 GMT

For anyone interested in psychology, there's a psychological aspect to this ... why these people hoard; how they got the way they are. There's an "intervention" part where friends & family meet w/ a therapist. One girl's husband was away in Afghanistan. She ruined his house. They confiscated all her animals, cleaned the house, replaced the carpet and the husband never knew about the disaster when he returned from overseas.

Re: Movie/TV Series on Pet Hoarding

KingstonsMom — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 18:31:59 GMT

@Love my grandkidswrote:
There's no way I could watch this. It would make me sick and would break my heart.

@Love my grandkids

100:heart's if I could.

I just can't watch this stuff, online or on the news, including what happens to poor dogs 'overseas', a lot of them stolen pets, with collars and names and a grieving family missing them.

Re: Movie/TV Series on Pet Hoarding

KingstonsMom — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 18:44:38 GMT

@RinaRinawrote:
For anyone interested in psychology, there's a psychological aspect to this ... why these people hoard; how they got the way they are. There's an "intervention" part where friends & family meet w/ a therapist. One girl's husband was away in Afghanistan. She ruined his house. They confiscated all her animals, cleaned the house, replaced the carpet and the husband never knew about the disaster when he returned from overseas.

@RinaRina

But did they help her seek help for this psychological problem she has, to hoard (and usually abuse in the process of hoarding) or just hide it from her husband?

Without treatment, her problem is still there. It will surface again in one way or another.

JMO.

Re: Movie/TV Series on Pet Hoarding

NickNack — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 21:44:44 GMT

@RinaRinawrote:
For anyone interested in psychology, there's a psychological aspect to this ... why these people hoard; how they got the way they are. There's an "intervention" part where friends & family meet w/ a therapist. One girl's husband was away in Afghanistan. She ruined his house. They confiscated all her animals, cleaned the house, replaced the carpet and the husband never knew about the disaster when he returned from overseas.

This woman needs long term therapy. IMO the husband should know about it to watch for signs of something like this happening again. I could never watch this show. I don't like to see anything bad about animals.

Re: Movie/TV Series on Pet Hoarding

Nataliesgramma — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 14:28:35 GMT

Same for me @Big Joanie

Re: Movie/TV Series on Pet Hoarding

RinaRina — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 16:15:00 GMT

@Love my grandkidswrote:
There's no way I could watch this. It would make me sick and would break my heart.

Yep. I thought "hoarding" simply meant too many pets, but NOT this kind of pathological behavior. After awhile, it just go too nasty.

I had to stop watching.

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Love my grandkids — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 18:06:09 GMT

Watching hoarding shows with humans is bad enough. I DO understand the mental illness part of hoarding but I still won't watch animal hoarding.

That's just plain animal abuse, no matter how "well intentioned" the hoarders are. Makes me sick.

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MoJoV — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 18:43:47 GMT

I can't watch anything with animals or children in distress. It stays with me and I keep stewing about it. I would love to have alot of animals but I know my limits. The most I've had is 3 dogs and it wasn't bad. We have a big yard and a roomy house.

Re: Movie/TV Series on Pet Hoarding

RinaRina — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 14:50:59 GMT

Okay, so, ... I went back to watching the series ... Again, very interesting to me from a human psychology point of view.

All the hoarders have psychological histories in common and I LEARNED something about a once close relative ...

Many years ago, our family had a lot of deaths .. parents, aunts, uncles ...

I was very close to a cousin, but overtime, he stopped coming to visit. His excuse was always his "animals".

Same as the series -- people have a family trauma and start hoarding animals.

Then the pets become more imortant than the humans and the only companions.