Talk:Cat hoarding

It appears this article should be combined with animal hoarding. &mdash;Ryanaxp 15:42, July 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm inclined to disagree. The two appear distinctly different. Animal hoarding involves purchasing a number of animals and keeping them in your home, while cat hoarding involves feeding stray cats. However, it does seem silly to have two articles on such a similar subject. At the very least a link to Cat hoarding should be provided at the animal hoarding article. --Psyk0 16:11, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Hey, I am going to put back up the proposal to combine the article. I disagree on factual grounds with Psyk0's objection.  First, feeding stray cats is not cat hoarding.  It contributes to human health hazard and ignores the problem of overbreeding among cats.  Nevertheless, it is not hoarding.  I'm not sure what it is called.  The article defines hoarding as "harboring large numbers of cats in a private home."  This is not ""feeding stray cats."


 * Second, hoarding does not require the purchase of animals. Often, the animals interbreed.  It is a self-sustaining (and indeed growing) population.  (They even commit incest, which leads to a great number of congenital problems.)


 * Moreover, cat hoarding is logically a subcategory of animal hoarding. Perhaps, it differs from other forms of animal hoarding in that cat hoarders stick to cats more than other animal hoarders (but I don't have any personal observations or knowledge to back this assertion).--Brianbeck 00:25, 9 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Agree with Brianbeck. Cat hoarding is no different from hoarding other animals. Maybe it's more popular, but that still doesn't warrant an article on its own. Dr Zak 22:31, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

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This article portrays cat hoarding and cat hoarders in a very negative light. I don't know enough about the subject to rewrite, but I'm certain that it's possible. Dave 23:40, 6 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Of course it portrays it in a negative light. Cat hoarding in many instances is tantamount to animal abuse, and generally indicative of mental illness; there is a reason the authorities get involved with these cases. You've offered no argument to refute this, which you should have done before you flagged the topic as NPOV. angrywhiteman < This user name does not exist. --WikiCats 11:03, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

two lesbain cat hoarders lived down the street from me. they kept desceased cats and cats feesces in thier refrigirator. on of the lesbains visciously beat the other and covered her in feesces. niether of them used the toilet. maybe some destructive behaviour is ensued in a cat hoarding individual.