I knew someone, who I guess you could call an animal hoarder. She at one time had 6 cats, 3 dogs, 4 ferrets, 3 guinea pigs, fish, and hermit crabs. Normally, I guess this wouldn't have been a problem but her parents could not afford the pets. Her ferret lived the last half of it's like with a giant tumor on his tail. Her guinea pigs cages were gross. Her house smelled of cat pee and there was hair LITERALLY everywhere, even in the food. It's not the most a hoarder can have but she couldn't handle it, and some of her animals suffered from it. They never could afford a "vet". they had AC called on them twice in the 8 years I knew her. I would consider them a hoarder just because they were over their limits and they knew it.