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Animal hoarding: The who, why, and where.
Published on March 8, 2011
By Jessie Sholl-author of Dirty Secret: A Daughter Comes Clean About Her Mother’s Compulsive Hoarding. Visit her blog.
Recently, an animal hoarding case on Long Island horrified the nation and left many people scratching their heads. One person who wasn’t surprised by the sheer number of animals living in such squalor was Gia, who’s been working tirelessly for seven years to stop this baffling mental illness from inflicting more pain on dogs, cats, reptiles, goats, and in the now infamous Long Island case, even a baby bull. Gia was kind enough to answer some of my questions about how she began her career and what the rest of us can do to help.
