Animal Hoarding In Humane Law

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Throughout the semester at the Dutchess County ASPCA Humane Law Enforcement Office, various complainants reported that people collecting animals. Animal collectors also go by the name of animal hoarders. There were many aspects of the internship that fascinated me, but animal hoarders are so complex that their psychology interested me. Law Enforcement officers need to handle any type of hoarder with kid gloves. This is one of the reasons why animal hoarders have caught my attention. Animal hoarders, and hoarders in general, are an aspect of the criminal justice system that is very hard to define and, as a result, very ahrd to prosecute. Animal hoarders are difficult to define because there are many factors that contribute to the cause of why people feel the need to collect animals and/or various items. Psychologists still poorly understand animal hoarding and there has not been much research done on the subject. …show more content…
Defining animal hoarding in law statutes is even more difficult because not all animal hoarding cases involve neglect of the animals. Legally, animal hoarding is when someone "posses a large number of companion animals, fails to or is unable to provide what is required to provide under Section 3 of his act, keeps the animals in a severely crowded environment, and displays an inability to recognize or understand the nature of or has a reckless disregard for the conditions under which the companion animals are living and the dangerous impact they have on the companion animals and owners health and well being" (Reinisch 2008). The language used to write these laws is very broad. For example, the statement "a larger number" is not specific to a certain amount of animals. People have different opinions about what constitutes a large number of animals; it could be 6 or 60 depending on the opinion one has of “large” (Schwalm
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