Wow, they took her totally reprehensible behaviour and made themselves look bad on top of it. Good job, guys!

Before this episode, I thought Augustine was the worst. But this beats the sweatpants off of Augustine.

This was the first episode my girlfriend ever made me turn off, mostly due to the animal abuse.

That wasn't meant as a reply, but this is:

DON'T LEAVE US HANGING.

Yeah, seriously-- Dish!

Your pal Samantha has a pretty evil job.

To be clear, I also want to hear more.

You're such a cocktease.

It's pretty horrible. There was an episode that they didn't air that they were going to do on this Nebraska woman who was floor to ceiling in garbage. She seemed fairly friendly and actually agreed to let them clean out the house fairly quick compared to others in the show. Underneath all the trash they found three dead dogs, a few dead cats, lots of rats and worst of all, a 30 years dead infants skeleton. They contacted the authorities and it turned out that the lady had been pregnant but no one knew about it. She stayed in when her water broke, it was a miscarriage and she never got rid of the body. She wasn't arrested, but she was committed. The producers took a vote among the staff and pretty much everyone said they refused to work on that episode again, so they cancelled that episode halfway through.

Sam wasn't actually on the scene, she is just an editor, chopping film, but she did see the B-roll of it.

Worth the wait.

thank you, Aelric. That was amazing.

Wow, that was even better/worse than what I was expecting.

Thanks for the story, Aelric. They probably made the right decision, I wouldn't want to watch that.

Basically she's a mentally ill person, and the local authorities don't do shit to keep her from bringing home more animals to torture. Her kids have been trying for years.

Screw that stupid blog, I found a better and more recent update:

http://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/local/Hoarder-fined-order-to-ha ve-no-animals-for-18-months-115152134.html

Turns out she's not been allowed to have animals on her property since February this year, and will not be allowed to for at least another year.

She was also fined 0.

All I'm getting is a quick look before it redirects me to shit sites.

The bunny hoarder was definitely overshadowed by this woman but his situation was pretty awful too, letting his dozens of hoarded rabbits utterly destroy a rental property, and having the owners survey the damage and the guy being completely flippant and defensive about what he'd done to their house. I was amazed at how collected the owners remained throughout the whole thing. Guess that's the power of fluffy bunnies

I liked Rat Man. I felt really bad for him.

Rat Man genuinely loved his animals, and admitted that the situation had gotten beyond his control. That made it really depressing, because there was no schadenfreude, just tears all around.