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» Collectors: Kindness Gone Awry - Factsheet from PETA about the disorder, with references.

» Tufts.edu: Animal Hoarding Research - Definition of pet collecting, research findings, links to articles.

» LA Weekly: Palisades Rathouse: Unchallenged by Health Officials, Elderly Twins Fed Local Vermin Population - An extreme case of hoarding and the failure of local government agencies to deal with it. (July 30, 2008)

» Loving Animals to Death - "Animal hoarders think they're helping their furry friends, but mostly they're just feeding their own twisted psyches." [Salon] (March 8, 2002)

» St. Petersburg Times: Woman may be Animal Hoarder - An article by Jamie Malernee about a local incident as well as other cases and the problem across the U.S. (July 2, 2001)

» Psychiatric Times: People Who Hoard Animals - An article by Randy Frost, Ph.D., providing an overview of research, hoarders' rationales, and possible explanations for the behavior. (April, 2000)

» Amarillo Globe-News: Cat Collector to Seek Counseling - A brief article about a woman who recognized herself as a collector, yet her animals were well taken care of. (January 21, 2000)

» Animal People: Animals in Bondage: the Hoarding Mind - An article about seven cases, statistics on dog, cat, and horse hoarding, and enabling behavior. (January, 1999)

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