Hoarders (on A&E)

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There's a marathon on A&E this Saturday starting at 2:00 p.m. The cat hoarder and the drama queen slob episode airs at 5:00 p.m. (Eastern).

[firstaid]

If you can't catch it on tv, you can watch the cat hoarder full episode on aetv.com for free.

[LAX]

I'll have to check out the marathon, since I haven't seen any of these episodes yet
Not like I really need an episode for a front row seat on hoarders. My husband's aunt is a major hoarder, you can barely walk through her house, it is just a maze of stuff piled to the ceilings with narrow paths cut through the clutter.
My sister and father also have hoarder tendencies. My mom kept my dad in check when she was alive, but now we just have to have someone take Dad out of the house for a day while the rest of us clean out the stuff. At least he's extremely organized in his obsessions, so we just have to take out neat little piles of bread bag clip. perfectly folded squared of used foil, and newspapers organized by date and folded into perfect little stacks. He gets grumpy when we clean, but at least he doesn't freak out about it. Sis has her hoarding kept in check because she's a world class couch surfer, so doesn't really have a home base to let her collections get out of hand.

[Malle Babbe]

Geez, the cat hoarder lady... I often wonder if those folks sustain brain damage from the ammonia fumes in places like that!

That was one funky looking skunk that skittered out of the garage, though.

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Sept 9, 2009 14:35:45 GMT -4 Malle Babbe said:

That was one funky looking skunk that skittered out of the garage, though.

Did you think so, too? I've never seen one so ... fluffy.

Maybe it was crossbred with a cat.

[gran4]

Ooolala PePe La Pew?!

[Mugsy]

I thought that skunk was pretty festive looking, too. Considering the wild cats in that garage could barely survive, it seemed the skunk was having a swanky old time there. Or maybe he popped by that one time and thought, "Dang, this place stinks. I'm outta here."

[Malle Babbe]

I was just surprised that there are skunks out west. If Wikipedia is anything to go by, it might have been a Western Spotted Skunk.

[chiqui]

I saw the episode with Jill, the food hoarding lady, for the first time. Oh. My. God.

I'd love to see a follow-up. Did she ever get evicted?

[LAX]

Sept 9, 2009 20:03:33 GMT -4 Malle Babbe said:

I was just surprised that there are skunks out west. If Wikipedia is anything to go by, it might have been a Western Spotted Skunk.

We used to have skunks hanging out in our very urban neighborhood in Vancouver all the time. When they were out in force during the mating season the alley ways just reeked of skunk. I see fewer of them now that I live in WA, but they're out there, the roadkill does not lie.