"Animal hoarding a mental illness - SPCA.
Cases of people who keep more animals than they can handle - animal hoarding - should be recognised as a mental illness, the Society for the Protection of Animals says.
The call follows a move by the Australian RSPCA to get the syndrome recognised as an illness.
It comes after the charging of a dog show judge David Balfour with four counts of cruelty after SPCA officer had to put down more than half the 160 cats and 80 dogs removed from his property."
But under what category I wonder?
Psychoticism indicates depth of affliction, so there's the depths of depravity to which these people, in some peoples' eyes, sink and then there's the truism that animal owners approximate the idiosyncracies/demeanours of their animals (or vice versa), so ... depersonalisation ... they suggest strong depressive elements, so an affective state is in order. The 100% recidivism rate would suggest a disorder of extreme compulsion or addictive quality and this would also be consistent with the reported denial of wrongdoing ... does not really go with the reported grandiosity tho,' seeing themselves as saviours ... schizo-affective disorder?? ... and then there is
Cases of people who keep more animals than they can handle - animal hoarding - should be recognised as a mental illness, the Society for the Protection of Animals says.
The call follows a move by the Australian RSPCA to get the syndrome recognised as an illness.
It comes after the charging of a dog show judge David Balfour with four counts of cruelty after SPCA officer had to put down more than half the 160 cats and 80 dogs removed from his property."
But under what category I wonder?
Psychoticism indicates depth of affliction, so there's the depths of depravity to which these people, in some peoples' eyes, sink and then there's the truism that animal owners approximate the idiosyncracies/demeanours of their animals (or vice versa), so ... depersonalisation ... they suggest strong depressive elements, so an affective state is in order. The 100% recidivism rate would suggest a disorder of extreme compulsion or addictive quality and this would also be consistent with the reported denial of wrongdoing ... does not really go with the reported grandiosity tho,' seeing themselves as saviours ... schizo-affective disorder?? ... and then there is
extension on this, when dogs deal to others' projection? Displacement?
In reality probably just 'lazy irresponsible buggers.' Interesting proposition tho.' Not only do they lose all their animals but also gain a 'community treatment order.' A 'double whammy,' so to say.
In reality probably just 'lazy irresponsible buggers.' Interesting proposition tho.' Not only do they lose all their animals but also gain a 'community treatment order.' A 'double whammy,' so to say.
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