Sentences with phrase «while animal hoarding»

While animal hoarding appears uncommon, SPCA executive director Deirdre Moss believes the problem is probably «bigger than what we see», due to unreported cases.

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While the public expresses shock and newspapers blame social conditions resulting in excess animals, few people understand the dynamics of hoarding, a mental illness that results in horrific animal neglect, and often poses health risks to the people around it.

While servicing as the ASPCA's senior vice president of ACG, Mr. Bershadker launched the organization's Field Investigations & Response team to provide skilled support during large - scale puppy mill seizures, dog fighting raids, animal hoarding cases and natural disasters.

While recognized as a psychological condition, hoarding can also result in criminal activity (violation of Chapter 343) when, due to the hoarder's inability to properly care for each animal, the animals experience unnecessary pain, suffer or die.

While Minnesota does not currently have a law tailored specificially to animal hoarding, the same statutes that protect animals in other situations apply to hoarding as well.

He said that while the Weidy Road shelter operates with an animal population of about 120, that number has burgeoned in the event of an abuse situation, including hoarding situations.