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Hoarding is a strange thing, but it's the hoarding animals that feel the most terrible.
A while ago, a couple in France had 159 cats, but after reading it, the court said don't keep them, sentenced them to a permanent ban on keeping pets, and also had to pay a fine.
It happened in the French city of Nice, and while it doesn't sound like a lot of cats, they also had seven dogs.
Although this may be a little more, the more serious problem lies in the breeding grounds. The living space of more than 100 small lives is in the couple's 80-square-meter apartment.
This space is about a spacious two-bedroom apartment, but with more than 160 animals to live, the situation in the house can be imagined, and the neighbors are miserable because of it.
According to reports, the couple is not young, the eldest sister is 68, the eldest brother is 52 years old, and it is not the first time that they have caused trouble because of hoarding animals. The couple was investigated back in 2014, when they had 13 cats and a dog in an 18-square-meter space.
A more serious situation began in 2018, when the eldest sister took three cats and three dogs from her parents and took them home to take care of. It's all quite normal, and for ordinary people, although it's a bit too much to have 6 pets, it's still manageable.
However, the next operation belongs to cupping the asshole and making it dead. She subsequently adopted 30 stray cats, which was comparable to a "loving act" of purchasing goods, which made the situation directly out of control. Because at this time, the pets at home were already full of overload, and the feces content was seriously exceeded, and the kittens brought home were not sterilized, and the cubs were directly bred, and the more they were raised.
By the last year, the neighbors had been devastated, bothered by the sounds of hundreds of animals and the smell of animal droppings.
When they couldn't bear it anymore, the neighbors got into an argument with them and called the police. As soon as the police entered the house, they were also shocked, dozens of animals were crowded into each room, and feces were spread all over the room.
In addition to the dirty environment, the pets are not properly cared for, and many kittens are dehydrated, malnourished, and infected with parasites, which is no better than wandering outside. Even some of these cats and dogs have long since died due to health problems, but their bodies have not been properly disposed of and are kept at home.
It can only be said that the neighbors complained in time, otherwise there may be more cats and dogs dying in the future.
In a later verdict, the judge found that they had not taken good care of their adopted pets, so they were permanently banned and had to pay 150,000 euros to various animal rights agencies, which is equivalent to millions of yuan. Originally, he was imprisoned for 18 months, but the sentence was suspended for one year.
When asked why they left their kittens at home when they were no longer able to take care of them properly, the couple could not say why, but could only describe the feeling of abandonment they would feel if they abandoned the animals.
In terms of psychiatric evaluation, the reason seems to have been found, and the testing party believes that she has "Noah's syndrome", also known as animal hoarding disorder.
This disease is simply understood as having a psychological need to care for and save animals, and then having a bunch of pets in a limited space. But this behavior is beyond the scope of ability, the patient is unable to take care of them, and more importantly, he denies this "incompetence" in his heart.
In other words, if you have the ability, as long as you can take good care of your pet, it's okay to keep more. But if you don't take care of it at all, and you don't admit it, and you have to increase the number of pets, it's probably a problem.
So looking at it this way, the judge is not letting them have pets, which is not only helping them, but also helping small animals. After all, animal hoarding is harmful to both humans and animals.
For example, one of the most common problems for hoarders is starving their pets. On the one hand, there may be no money to buy food, and on the other hand, there are too many to take care of, in short, pets are easily malnourished and even starved to death. In addition, when there are too many hoarded animals and a limited supply of food, animals can also become more aggressive and may attack each other in order to compete for food.
Another common situation is the poor living environment.
Hoarders tend to confine a large number of pets to their own houses, small houses are crammed with dozens or even hundreds of pets, and crowded spaces lead to deterioration of sanitary conditions, which seriously affects the health of humans and these animals.
And for hoarders, they often deliberately ignore health problems and even refuse to take their pets to the doctor.
And what is outrageous is that hoarders hoard pets are actually diverse.
For example, a few days ago, two hoarders in the United States were also arrested, and they were accused of hoarding and abusing nearly 200 animals, including dogs, guinea pigs, turtles, and various birds. At that time, the police first stopped their car, then smelled a corpse, then found a large number of animal carcasses, and then found more animals.
In January of this year, an old brother in the United States was even more outrageous, he hoarded more than 100 rare animals in the basement, snakes, turtles, and even ostriches, and the old brother said that the ostrich was bought after he was drunk.
In February, two people in Australia were convicted of animal cruelty, including 100 dogs, 11 kangaroos, more than a dozen cats and a number of birds, for hoarding. Two of the dogs had to be euthanized because of their injuries, and many of the animals had to be surgically treated or even amputated.
Last year, an eldest sister in the United States even hoarded a "".
The Florida hoarder has 300 animals in his home, including more than 160 chickens, ducks, and 140 cats.
The poultry were kept in cages, which had not been cleaned for a long time, so a thick layer of manure was laid. There was a pile of bedpans in the kitchen, which was also full of feces. There are more than a dozen garbage cans in the house, and the barrels are full of feces, and the whole house feels like it has been pickled in feces.
In short, the animals in reality are not Pokémon, and they can't be locked in Poké Balls as they want to eat and drink. If you have a pet, you must take care of your little friends, be responsible for your life, and don't turn your "kindness" into a kind of torture.
(The pictures and information materials in the article come from the Internet)