Lisa Can't Say Goodbye, Keeps Cats That Die, on 'Confessions: Animal Hoarding' (VIDEO)

More and more would be animal lovers are giving up owning pets because of the obscene veterinarian fees that are beginning to rival casts for humans. They see a gold mine here and they are exploiting it to the max. My vet has started adding costs to every bill that include disposal fees for cotton swabs and extra fees for the onsite technicians time. A blood test for phenobarb levels runs me over $80 which is twice what I would pay for my own PSA blood tests. Without it they would not renew the prescription so my Peke would return to having seizures. These practices have contributed for people buying bootlegged meds where they can obtain them much cheaper with no prescription from India. They now demand yearly wellness exams whether you want it or not before they will give even routine shots. Vets aren't satisfied to drive Fords and Chevys anymore. Now they want to drive Cadillacs and we are paying for them..

I have always taken care of my anmials but I do understand that this woman has a problem.I have kept dead cats and dogs in my freezer,properly wrapped until they could be burried or sometimes for autopsies when they came with garentees from birth defects and they show no reason to die the way they did.

I watched this show and they tested the cats and they were negative for aids and leukemia, so this report is wrong in saying "moreof them were ill than she cared to admit." The cats weren't living in filth; she is VERY clean. The cats were well fed and healthy; there were just too many to continue up-keep financially.

sounds like they have feline leukemia - unfortunately, it will kill off all of the cats that she has - you need to be very cautious when bringing in stray cats to you home when you have other cats

Well, I love my cats and my dogs, and when I had horses I loved them as well. But I've never had an unmanagable number, and that means that number has to be a number that we can afford bet bills for!! If you really love your animals, then you have to provide for them the same as you do your kids, proper food, clean living conditions, pest control so they don't get diseases from fleas and ticks, and proper vaccinations and meds when they get sick. And I said WHEN the get sick, because despite how well they are cared for they are gona get sick from time to time, especially when they get old. Yes, I have had a dead cat or dog (depending on size) in my freezer from time to time, but only for an extremely short time, till we could get them to the farm to be buried in our pet cemetary. They were in plastic bags and the cats also in small carboard boxes provided by the vet for burial. This was not a regular occurance, but only if we couldn't go bury them right at that moment. When your vet puts an animal down and you don't want to dispose of them yourself, where do you think they keep them untill the animal warden or whoever takes care of that service in your area comes to get them?? A big deep freeze. But aside from the practical means to put one on ice for a day or overnight or such, keeping them in the freezer is not going to make them come back. If they're frozen they're gone, they were gone when you put them in there. Giving them a proper burial is the last loving thing you can do for them. I could not stand the thought of my animals going to the city dump, or the incinerator to be burned with the garbage. I can't understand these hoarder who claim to love their animals, yet they have so many they can't provide a proper life for. They really have some big issues and need help. All my animals are neutered. < Proper term for both sexes. Bob Barker was a real animal lover, and his message should be on billboards across the nation, Have your pets spayed or neutered.

These "hoarders" are SO mentally unbalanced, and in need of professional mental care.

Sweetie, work in a cat shelter or become a vet. Put the really sick cats to sleep. You're just prolonging their pain. Show the cats that you love them by taking care of them properly.

Hoarding is very clearly a mental illness and therapy seems to help some of them. Addiction is powerful and the addict usually is in denial- everyone can see the problem but the addict. I do understand loss and pain from my own experience. Letting go is not easy, but with help one can move on with life after loss. Some of our losses happen in adulthood. But when it happens in your childhood-- that can be much more difficult to understand and cope with.

Hoarding is very clearly a mental illness and therapy seems to help some of them. Addiction is powerful and the addict usually is in denial- everyone can see the problem but the addict. I do understand loss and pain from my own experience. Letting go is not easy, but with help one can move on with life after loss. Some of our losses happen in adulthood. But when it happens in your childhood-- that can be much more difficult to understand and cope with.

I am really getting tired of reality shows! they're boring and it's getting to the point that everything that could be done has been done so what's next? I mean really what is next? Very rarely do you find any quality programming on TV anymore.