Hoarders (on A&E)

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OMG! Gary and Hanna are two of the most hideous human beings I've EVER seen on this show. On ANY show!

Hanna, the other animal hoarder/abuser, needs to be taken out back and shot.

Second that! Bitch needs to go to hell. And why do these kids always want to have "relationships" with their horribly abusive parents?!

And holy shit! The stupid psychologist made the Animal Control people leave?! Because Hanna is going to get better?!

Oh, helloooooo nightmares tonight.

[Ladybug]

Hana is beyond help. They should've let animal control take her animals and left her in her mess.

OMG, the preview for next week: RATS!!!! Who thought it could be worse than the chickens and bunnies?

[Babycakes]

Jan 3, 2011 23:52:15 GMT -4 Ladybug said:

OMG, the preview for next week: RATS!!!!

Burn down the house!!

I'm sorry, I know some people think all creatures are wonderful, and it isn't the animals fault, but I cannot abide mice/rats/snakes. That's a Babycakes shaped hole through the door type of situation. A&E should have put a warning up before that preview. Good lord!! I won't be able to sleep tonight.

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MY GOD. Why did they turn away the Animal Control people? Everyone working with Hanna was an incompetent idiot. I cannot believe they let those animals suffer like that. I don't think I'll be watching Hoarders anymore, that was it for me. I really think Hanna is a psychopath. That show was just gross and crossed a line for me.

[americanchai]

I'd say a lot of people with Hanna's viciousness turn into serial killers. She is also - her main victims are animals. She clearly belongs somewhere where she can't hurt anybody or anything. If she killed herself after this, I would have cheered. This was a horrific episode of "Hoarders" but I think if we are watching to be entertained and soothed it is not necessarily the point. I don't think this was exploitation - if anything, the daughters wanted them to come in mainly to have the animals taken away and maybe for humiliation purposes of her mother as payback for the abuse she heaped on them. It seems unfair that the kids and animals get taken away - it seems like Hanna is the one who should have been taken away. I'm sure people who work with hoarders, child protective services and animal hoarders in particular have to deal with people like this all the time. It sucks and it is pretty awful to watch if you're expecting to be entertained but this is reality.

ETA: If I was Gary's landlords I would have just made sure his poor sucker of a wife was out of the house and burned the whole sucker down with him still in there. What a jackass. This episode definitely brought out all of the possible negative aspects of human existence, didn't it?

[Ladybug]

Both Hanna and Gary were really awful, hateful people.

I'm fed up with Dr. Robin Zasio (aka Dr. Tonya Harding, tm TWOP). She is a terrible therapist and actually ends up enabling these fools, IMO. And I think Matt Paxton met his match in Hanna. He usually doesn't take any BS from the hoarders, but he seemed to realize early on that she was crazy and beyond help and he just let her family deal with her.

My dad used to raise chickens and I hated, absolutely hated, having to help take care of them. They are not cute and cudly but stinky and mean. However, I felt really sorry for Hanna's chickens. I don't understand why she wanted all of them. What pleasure or joy did she get out of having them in that condition? My dad approached them as pets and as a hobby, I just didn't understand what Hanna got out of it. I guess they were a replacement for the children that she abused. Sick.

I couldn't believe that Gary's landlords let them stay in the house after what they did to it with the crap and the bunnies. And no amount of vacuuming or carpet cleaning would satisfy me. I would have to get rid of the carpet and probably gut the whole house. The rabbits looked downright scary on that bunny cam. One bunny is cute. Thirty bunnies is creepy!

[chonies]

The only moment of levity amidst the horror for me was the sign Gary made about the Portage APL discriminating against bunnies. This, of course, led to a mental image of bunnies protesting and bunny picket lines.

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Jan 4, 2011 10:49:12 GMT -4 Ladybug said:

However, I felt really sorry for Hanna's chickens. I don't understand why she wanted all of them. What pleasure or joy did she get out of having them in that condition? My dad approached them as pets and as a hobby, I just didn't understand what Hanna got out of it. I guess they were a replacement for the children that she abused. Sick.

That's exactly why she kept animals, to have vulnerable things around her that she could beat up. I firmly believe that Hanna truly didn't see the animals' suffering. I mean, she saw it but to her it wasn't suffering. My guess is that in her mind, anything she does to any other creature is justified. Did you see how quickly she literally went for her daughter's throat? She's crazy mean, down to her bones.

Gary, wow. Gary. I felt so sorry for his wife. I'm sure she's a hoarder, too, but he's a hoarder and an asshole. How many times did he storm off? Five? Six? And those landlords are from some other planet than any landlord I've ever had! By the way, did they ever explain what bathroom Gary and his wife were using? That house didn't look like it would have two bathrooms and the bunnies had crapshit the hell out of the one.

[discoprincess]

Jan 4, 2011 0:06:34 GMT -4 Babycakes said:

Jan 3, 2011 23:52:15 GMT -4 Ladybug said:

OMG, the preview for next week: RATS!!!!

Burn down the house!!

I'm sorry, I know some people think all creatures are wonderful, and it isn't the animals fault, but I cannot abide mice/rats/snakes. That's a Babycakes shaped hole through the door type of situation.

That line made me giggle for some reason. For that. I had to link to this picture.

[LAX]

I can't believe I made it through this episode. The suffering of all those animals just tore me up and I totally with you guys when you say Hanna is the one that needs to get taken out. I was cheered when I saw the animal control truck pull up and so pissed off when they were sent away. Those animals needed to be out of there yesterday.

I am glad this isn't the kind of show that shows a happy resolution (or maybe this was just an episode that demonstrates you can't win 'em all?) The level of nutso in the two subjects is clearly something that can't be tied up in a pretty bow and stamped "solved!" at the end of a 30 minutes episode.

The bunny house really needs to be burned to the ground. They may have taken some of the grime from the main living areas, but those bunnies have been burrowing the walls, pooping and chewing and possibly even dying, so I'll bet that place still reeks. I imagine the landlords are figuring the cost to renovate the place if they evicted bunnyman and wife would be too expensive, and what tenant would want that place unless it had been fully gutted and rebuilt. Perhaps they're hoping nature will take its course and the bunny chewed wiring will do the dirty work for them.