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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;I Like Trees, post: 290627, member: 10463&quot;]<b>No offense taken</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Not too offended. Just a little annoyed. Believe me, I make fun of myself and others with such tendencies all the time, but when you&#039;re living in a cat-urine-soaked house, or squeezing through newspaper-walled tunnels, it ceases to be funny.</p><p><br /></p><p>Luckily, like I said, I&#039;m not an animal hoarder. No<font face="Verdana">ö</font>ne in my family hoards animals either, except maybe my grandpa in Canada. He keeps a national border between himself and his children and grandchildren for protection, so it&#039;s hard to tell exactly what&#039;s going on.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do know he and his wife have been living directly on particleboard for almost 10 years, after they tore up the cat-soiled wall-to-wall carpeting in their entire house. They also take-in a lot of stray cats, although supposedly this is only foster-care. I don&#039;t know how many animals they live with now. I am the last person in my family to go inside the house. That was in the mid-&#039;90&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>He had a stroke this spring and my mom, aunt, sister and cousin went north to visit. They stayed in a hotel and saw him and his wife in the hospital where he&nbsp; was an in-patient. They also went to his step-daughter&#039;s house. Latter, when they thought his wife was back home, they went to the house, but no<font face="Verdana">ö</font>ne answered the door.</p><p><br /></p><p>My aunt is convinced his wife was hiding. It isn&#039;t out of the question. I have hidden from people because I was embarrassed about the amount of stuff in my apartment. I know he and his wife hoard stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>My aunt hoards too. She came close to having the newspaper-tunnel situation (except the walls were mixed, not pure newspaper.) Her piles are somewhat smaller now, but she hasn&#039;t stopped hoarding. The special I saw on the Discovery channel said there is no cure, only reduction in the severity of the behavior.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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