Thank You guys!

See? This is why I come here and present my questions. I am comforted (just a little on this subject) and I don't feel so alone in my emotional upset. TYSVM!

I have seen this type of thing all too much and each time it knaws at my soul to find an answer. I've seen the show you spoke of lizzardbits. All the cats, and not one could be saved. It broke my heart!

I understand what you are saying BIBI. Pop (Mr. Lixy's grandpop) was a hoarder of things...not animals. We even once found a peanut butter jar under his bed filled with beard shavings (from his electric shaver) from over a year or two. It's an odd thing what they'll hoard!

I know PF, that anomaly means "deviation from common"...but this strange action is happening all too often without much focus on understanding and cure. So I labeled the thread "Common Anomaly" because it explains a happening that is present more often these days (Common), but must have been happening in days gone by and just wasn't news worthy (Anomaly). Or maybe it was just so localized until shows like Animal Planet brought us the scope of it all. Oh...I don't know. I just thought "Common Uncommonality" (word?...is now) wasn't catchy enough a title for a thread...lol!

It has to be a sickness, as no person in their right mind would look in on a situatuion like this and feel at ease!

Some good news comes from this story I presented. Unlike the cats in the story lizzardbits spoke of...some of these dogs will be adoptable. There were several dozen dogs in this house and a lot of them had mange and intestinal parasites, etc. But there are a couple dozen who can be helped. It seems almost all the dogs are gentle enough to be cared for. It was even said that they'd make PERFECT pets because their appreciation seems tenfold over a dog adopted from normal circumstances. Right now, all of them seem to cower and shake when a person gets near. But a few have already taken food from the hands of the caregivers/medical personnel, which is always a good sign of trust and gentleness. None of them growl at each other...another good sign. All of them need intense medical care and will probably be shaved completely to let their fur come back in after they have been cleansed at the skin level. It doesn't seem as any of them hurt one another in a survival of the fittest. Dogs are instinctual pack animals...and this pack cared for one another deeply.

As to the renter of the house...no one has spoken about the owner who rented this house out to the person[s] who will be charged for this neglect...the report has only mentioned the renter and his wife. The man they seek (who is nowhere to be found at the moment) is 58 y/o, and his wife is 62. He will be charged with neglect and who knows what else. I think they should also charge the owner of the house with something! What kind of landlord lets a thing like this go on in a house they own? I already know the answer to that (I think)...and so it's probably rhetorical...but I am typing and I can't stop...lmfao!

Hey! Thanks again guys!

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