If you have watched Hoarders on A&E you know how addicting it can be.
Like a train wreck, you can’t take your eyes off it. Hoarders is fascinating, frightening, depressing. But the worst (is there such a thing?) is yet to come.
On the upcoming season finale of A&E’s Hoarders we see two situations that are insanely out of control -and they both involve animals.
Glen, who has a collection of 2,500 free-roaming rats, doesn’t even live in his house anymore. The rats took over! He lives in a shed on his property instead. The rats were originally bred as pets, but after his wife’s death, the rat collection spun out of control. Now Glen needs help removing the animals so he can return home. But of course there is catch. Glen insists that the rats be saved and adopted.
Then we meet Lisa. Lisa has hoarded her father’s house both inside and out. She has dozens of cats that roam freely through the clutter and her father is threatening to evict her and her pets. Lisa will not be allowed back until she cleans the house, and gets rid of her animals.
Craziness! I just don’t understand how people can live like this. Not judging, but it’s just mind blowing that people will put themselves, and their families in the position of living in a virtually toxic dump. Even more bizarre is that the hoarders will choose garbage over their loved ones.
“Glen & Lisa” premieres Monday, January 10 at 10PM ET/PT.
Hoarding definitely to that extreme is a sickness. I have not watched the show, but something has to be “wrong” to have rats to infest your house and then you insist that the rats have to saved and adopted. Who knows what diseases they’re carrying? Where I live, if someone lives in a place infested with rats to that extent and the man insists on them to be saved, most likely our county would condemn the structure, get the man some mental help and most likely burn the place down unless they can get it up to code.
This is NUTS! I love this show. I can’t believe that these hoarders don’t end up getting extremely sick. Maybe their body’s immunity gets boosted from living amongst such dirty conditions. I would think they would be ill all of the time.
Hoarding definitely to that extreme is a sickness. I have not watched the show, but something has to be “wrong” to have rats to infest your house and then you insist that the rats have to saved and adopted. Who knows what diseases they’re carrying? Where I live, if someone lives in a place infested with rats to that extent and the man insists on them to be saved, most likely our county would condemn the structure, get the man some mental help and most likely burn the place down unless they can get it up to code.
This is NUTS! I love this show. I can’t believe that these hoarders don’t end up getting extremely sick. Maybe their body’s immunity gets boosted from living amongst such dirty conditions. I would think they would be ill all of the time.