WAYNE NEWTON WELCOMES 200 RESCUED LOVEBIRDS TO LIVE PERMANENTLY AT CASA DE SHENANDOAH

Las Vegas – On Thursday, June 9, Wayne Newton welcomes 200 rescued lovebirds to live permanently at Casa de Shenandoah. The Animal Planet new hit series, Confessions: Animal Hoarding, documents the story of the lovebirds’ journey from a hoarding situation to the freedom of Casa de Shenandoah. The lovebirds arrive just in time to get fully acclimated to their new sanctuary before the opening of Casa de Shenandoah at the end of the year.

The birds were rescued from a home where the owners allowed the 200 lovebirds to live freely in their house. With mutual agreement from the family, the show, Confessions: Animal Hoarding, rescued the birds and temporally moved them to Gilcrease Nature Sanctuary before relocating them to their permanent home at Casa de Shenandoah..." More

New Books

The Secret Lives of Hoarders: True Stories of Tackling Extreme Clutter

By Matt Paxton

Overview:

On the front lines with extreme hoarders

The Secret Lives of

Hoarders is much more than harrowing tales of

attacking the ugliest, dirtiest, and most shocking hoarding cases in the country. It is a behind-the

-scenes look at this hidden epidemic- what it means, how to recognize it before it

gets out of hand, and how to deal with it.

Through his work with hundreds of clients in the

worst circumstances- from the giant "rat's nest" that hid more than $13,000 in cash to a vast cache of cartoon pornography to twenty-five years' worth of unopened mail-Matt Paxton has learned to understand this disorder and his clients' impulses to collect, to speak the hoarders'

language, and to reach out to them with compassion and concern while avoiding

criticism and judgment. Most important, he guides compulsive hoarders

successfully through every step of the clean-up and healing process.

The Secret Lives of Hoarders is an engrossing and sometimes unsettling

look at extreme clutter but one that helps hoarders, their families, and their

friends to find meaning in the chaos..." Amazon link

The Hoarder in You

by Dr. Robin Zasio

Pub. Date: November 2011

Overview:

The once little-known condition of hoarding has become a household phrase—in part due to the popularity of the Emmy Award–winning television show Hoarders, which has captivated audiences with its stark and heartbreaking look at the people who suffer from this paralyzing condition.

Our fascination with hoarding stems, according to Dr. Robin Zasio, from the fact that we all fall somewhere on the hoarding continuum. From compulsive shoppers to hobbyists and collectors to ordinary, run-of-the-mill pack rats—to some degree or another, we all hoard.

Dr. Zasio shares behind-the-scenes stories from the show, including some of the most serious cases of hoarding that she’s encountered—and explains how we can learn from these extreme examples. She also shares psychological and practical advice for de-cluttering and organizing, including how to:

-tame the emotional pull of acquiring additional things

-make order out of chaos by getting a handle on clutter

-create an organizational system that reduces stress and anxiety..." Amazon link

Baltimore scientists search for cause, treatment for hoarding

By Mary Carole McCauley

he table in Jack Samuels' Fells Point office is piled two feet high with books, papers, scientific journals and grant applications.

Samuels' wife likes to tease him that he has a hoarding problem, just like the people he studies. In reality, those stacks of paper might hold a remedy.

Samuels, an associate professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University's School of Medicine, is the go-to guy nationwide for researchers seeking to understand the biological basis of hoarding — an intense, irrational drive to collect items in vast quantities, coupled with an inability to discard even objects that are worthless or broken.

Samuels established that hoarding occurs in approximately 5 percent of the population — a far larger number than was previously suspected — and linked compulsive hoarding behavior in some patients to chromosome 14..." More

About 200 animals seized from Zebulon home

By JUSTIN QUESINBERRY

ZEBULON, N.C. --

Franklin County Animal Services and the U.S. Humane Society seized about 200 animals at a Zebulon property. The owner will likely face charges.

Chickens received fluid through IV Monday night after being seized from a property in Zebulon. In all, 200 to 300 animals were taken from the property.

Franklin County Animal Services received a call Monday morning from a neighbor of the home at 916 Carlyle Road in Zebulon. The caller claimed there was a carcass along his fence line, and there were rats as large as one pound each in his yard.

Upon responding to the complaint, Franklin County Animal Services director Graham Stallings was not permitted to the back of the property belonging toRenee Jean Long. As a result, Stalling acquired a warrant and found 175 total animals on the property.

Three of the 25 dogs showed signs of Parvovirus and three puppies were dead. The dogs believed to have Parvo were transported to Bunn Animal Hospital..." More & video

Hoarding problem emerges from the shadows

BY KEVIN MURPHY

Sally Fronsman-Cecil was always inclined to have a cluttered home, but she went into the “downward spiral” life of a hoarder after her husband died in 1998.

Clothes, food, cardboard boxes, magazines, plastic bins and other items pile up in her house. Her living room is impassible; her kitchen counters heaped with dishes and food.

Fronsman-Cecil kept her problem a secret until the 2005 National Alliance on Mental Health convention in Texas.

“I had been a member of the alliance for a long time and felt comfortable about finally coming out,” said Fronsman-Cecil, 63..." "More

More than 150 animals seized from Zebulon home

ZEBULON, N.C. --

Franklin County Animal Services and the U.S. Humane Society are at a Zebulon home where they have removed more than 150 animals due to inhumane conditions.

Franklin County Animal Services received a call Monday morning from a neighbor of the home at 916 Carlyle Road in Zebulon. The caller claimed there was a carcass along his fence line, and there were rats as large as one pound each in his yard.

Upon responding to the complaint, Franklin County Animal Services director Graham Stallings was not permitted to the back of the property belonging to Renee Jean Long. As a result, Stalling acquired a warrant and found 175 total animals on the property..." More

Cat-hoarding Spanish Springs sisters sentenced

Jaclyn O’Malley

The more vocal of two cat-hoarding Spanish Springs sisters was sentenced Tuesday to five days in jail over the sickly and fatal conditions of their 48 pets, while the quieter sister was placed on four days house arrest.

Both Lauretta Nawojski, 71, whom Sparks Justice of the Peace Kevin Higgins warned to stop yelling at him, and her sister, Jackie Pearl Haney, 72, are also responsible for paying more than $47,000 in restitution to the Nevada Humane Society and Washoe County Regional Animal Services.

The Humane Society has had to board the sisters’ 44 cats, which were removed from the Spanish Springs home Nov. 9, and Animal Services boarded the sisters’ four dogs, which like many of the cats also needed medical treatment. Each organization charges a boarding fee of $5 a day, Nevada Humane Society executive director Bonney Brown said..." More