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Of food and water to some extent, but they don't have the ability really to go through and monitor the population. you see injuries that have not been treated properly, that have either gotten infected or healed improperly. you often see disease from overcrowding. >> people with animal hoarding tend to want to be caregivers. a lot of times they may get a soechbs comfort, they may get a sense of the animals needing them. so that's how they derive pleasure from it. they just begin to take in more and more and more. at that point it's how do i get rid of this? >> when animal control in florida ca...

It wasn't until we started walking through the property and there was a plarj area off the main house that was sort of the isolation ward, just had cages and cages of very sick cats. there was a large barn that had cages and cages of cats. there were pens with cats in them. trailer with cats. when you come around the other side of the house there's other pens of cats. departmenty of investigation and field responder join him on the rescue. >> anyone that looks at a situation like that would almost immediately wonder how somebody could care for that many animals. your immediate thought was oh m...

>> a lot of times they may get a sense of comfort, may get a sense of the animals needing them. so that's how they derive pleasure from it. they just begin to take in more and more and more. so then at that point, it's how do i get rid of this? >> when animal control in florida calls for help with an out-of-control cat sanctuary in february 2011, he heads out with a video camera to document the scene. >> when you initially drive up, you really have no idea of the full extent of what's going on with the situation. and it wasn't until we started walking through the property and we came to, you k...

When there's so many animals and not enough people to care for them, what happens is they may be providing sort of the basics of food and water to some extent, but they don't have the ability really to go through and monitor the population. you see injuries that have not been treated properly, that have either gotten infected or healed improperly. you often see disease from overcrowding. >> people with animal hoarding tend to want to be caregivers. they want to take in the defenseless animal. be an advocate for these creatures who can't advocate for themselves. a lot of times they may get a se...

Full extent of what's going on with the situation. and it wasn't until we started walking through the property and we came to, you know, there was a large area off the main house that was sort of the isolation ward that just had cages and cages and cages and very, very sick cats. there was a large barn that also had cages and cages of cats. off of that barn were some pens with cats in them. you know, there was a trailer with cats. then come around the other side of the house, there's other pens with cats. >> deputy manager of cruelty investigations, ashley, and senior field responder, rowdy sh...