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Animal Hoarding
Arnold Arluke, Gary Patronek, Randall Lockwood
and Allison Cardona

Introduction
In the winter of 1875, the New York Sun published a profile of Rosalia Goodman,
a woman living with over 80 cats in a dilapidated tenement on the Lower East Side
of Manhattan. According to the article, she made up her mind to ‘take care of all
the cats I could when people turned them out in the cold to starve.’ (Anonymous
1875, p. 4). The description of her home sounds like contemporary cases:

A. Arluke (*)
Department of Sociology, Northeastern University, Boston, MAUSA
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G. Patronek
Independent Consultant; Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts
University, MA, USA
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R. Lockwood
Forensic Sciences and Anti-Cruelty Projects, American Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animal, New York, NY, USA
e-mail:
A. Cardona
Cruelty Intervention Advocacy (CIA) Program, American Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animal, New York, NY, USA
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