cat hoarding

[Grant Barrett]

It's usually "animal hoarding" or "animal collecting," since it's not
just cats that are collected. Teresa Nielsen Hayden (a book editor with
a very good blog) has some interesting posts about this. Some of this
stuff will make you barf your Maypo.

http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002253.html
http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/005722.html

Grant Barrett

On Nov 7, 2004, at 00:11, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:

> 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)
>