Animal Cruelty: Acts of violence of neglect perpetrated against animals are considered animal cruelty. Some examples are overt abuse, dog fighting and cockfighting, and denying a companion animal the basic necessities of care, such as food, water of shelter.
Animal Hoarding of Collecting: Obsessive/compulsive disorder in which individual keeps a large number of animals-sometimes meer than 100-in his of her home, and neglects to care for the animals and the home pagina environment; "collectors" are usually in extreme denial about the situation. Technically, hoarding can be considered a crime, as it...
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