cat hoarding

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

today's Palo Alto Daily News reported on a flagrant case of "cat
hoarding" -- keeping large numbers of cats, especially if they breed,
especially if they are confined within a house.  the case in question,
in san carlos, ca., involved about 80 cats in a fairly small house.

someone starts out helping or rescuing cats, and eventually it gets out
of hand.

"cat hoarding" doesn't come up on searches in recent ADS-L archives.
(a google web search gives about 145 hits, not all about this local
case.)  the expression is partly, but not entirely, transparent.  does
someone want to record it?

arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu)