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Welcome...
To the home page of HARC, the Hoarding of Animals Research
Consortium, a group of researchers who collaborated from 1997-2006. We have assembled the resources on this
site to increase awareness about a complex disorder
which has until recently not received serious attention
by medical, mental health, and public health professionals.
Known to animal protection groups or SPCA's for many
years as "collectors", the depth of the pathology underlying
this behavior is just beginning to be uncovered, and
shows striking similarities to other forms of hoarding
behavior which are better understood.
NEW:
ANIMAL
HOARDING:
What caseworkers need to know
Gary J. Patronek,
2007
This paper was presented at the fall 2007 MassHousing Conference.It contains our
most current thinking about the psychology of animal hoarding and treatment approaches.
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ANIMAL
HOARDING:
Structuring Interdisciplinary Responses to Help People,
Animals, and Communities at Risk
Edited by Gary J. Patronek, Lynn Loar, and Jane N. Nathanson,
2006
This proceedings from a forum held April 3rd,
2004 is intended to help all stakeholders (human health
and welfare, municipal government, and animal welfare)
understand the role each other plays in resolving animal
hoarding cases, and outlines strategies for working
together more effectively to improve outcomes for human and animal victims of this behavior.
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Hard copies of this report are available (cost includes postage and handling).
$15 each for orders of 1-5 copies
$10 each for orders of 6-15 copies
For orders of >15 copies, please contact us for volume discounts.
Make check payable to MSPCA.
Please send payment to:
MSPCA
Attn: Jan Holmquist
350 South Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02130
What you will find here
NOTE: The light
brown text, as shown below, indicates active links to
documents, which can be read or downloaded, or links
to other relevant sites.
This site aims to bring together the work of HARC as well
as credible resources from throughout the US to help you
better understand the phenomenon of animal hoarding, its
impact on individuals and communities all across the US
and internationally, and finally, its sentinel role for
elder abuse and neglect, child abuse and neglect, and
adult self-neglect.
In order to read many of
the articles posted on this site, you must have Adobe
ACROBAT reader. This free software can be downloaded
by clicking on the link below:
Download ADOBE ACROBAT READER software
Our goal is to eliminate
stereotypes and increase the baseline level of awareness
of this behavior among those invovled in caring for
animals, among public agencies, and among those involved
in public health and the legal system. It is our hope
that increased awareness will stimulate additional research
and help interested parties come together, so that collaboratively,
they may help those involved in hoarding cases - be
they friends, family members, municipal authorities,
health professionals, or animal protection groups -
achieve a more humane and more lasting intervention
for all involved.
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