When the Fur Flies

Here in America, the Land of Plenty, we don't just hoard garbage, we keep mass quantities of animals as well. If one cat is good, aren't 285 even better?

And we even have a television channel, Animal Planet (part of the Discovery Channel family), to exploit the animal hoarders.

If 'regular' Hoarders makes you feel a little queasy, Animal Hoarders is guaranteed to make you vomit.

Take Christine (pictured above). Please. And take all of her dogs and cats too.

Seems Christine can't say 'no' to an animal. In fact, she's been known to stop on her way to work to try to lure strays into her car.

Naturally, these animal hoarders have all had lives that have been so horrible that living knee-deep in fecal matter is just the least of their problems.

Only some of the hoarders accept psychological help to kick the animal habit, although it's offered to all of them. Well, as they say, you can lead a horse to water, or a dog, or a cat ...