Dog Hoarding Dog Lovers

Dog lovers take good care of their dogs. They keep the home fairly clean, provide adequate attention, nutrition, and veterinary care. Sometimes dog lovers become dog hoarders. This happens when dog lovers take in more dogs than they are able to care for. On the news, they had a story about a man with 330 dogs. He is cited with animal abuse for hoarding dogs. If he had a large mansion and a full time staff attending to the dogs needs, he would be considered an eccentric dog lover. That was not the case. They discovered sick dogs in desperate need of medical care, dogs starving and a layer of dog feces on the floor. That makes him a dog hoarder. That is the main difference between a dog hoarder and a dog lover. I have been reading too many of these stories lately. There is another one about a woman who had 52 dogs in a small mobile home. The neighbors complained about the smell. Upon investigation, they confiscated all of her dogs. The floor was covered in feces. The dogs had never been brushed and were covered in mats and feces. Twelve of the dogs had to be put down. It is strange. Sometimes dog lovers that start off wanting to help dogs, can become the biggest dog abusers of all. It is better to give one dog a good life, than 20 dogs a bad life.