Animal Hoarding Arnold Arluke, Gary Patronek, Randall Lockwood and Allison Cardona Introduction In the winter of 1875, the New York Sun published a profile of Rosalia Goodman, a woman living with over 80 cats in a dilapidated tenement on the Lower East Side of Manhattan According to the article, she made up her mind to ‘take care of all the cats I could when people turned them out in the cold to starve.’ (Anonymous 1875, p 4) The description of her home sounds like contemporary cases: A Arluke (*) Department of Sociology, Northeastern University, Boston, MAUSA e-mail: aarluke@gmail.com G Patronek Independent Consultant; Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University, MA, USA e-mail: gary.patronek@tufts.edu R Lockwood Forensic Sciences and Anti-Cruelty Projects, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animal, New York, NY, USA e-mail: randall.lockwood@aspca.org A Cardona Cruelty Intervention Advocacy (CIA) Program, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animal, New York, NY, USA e-mail: allison.cardona@aspca.org © The Author(s) 2017 J Maher et al (eds.), The Palgrave International Handbook of Animal Abuse Studies, DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-43183-7_6 107