Hoarders

The small paths in Michelle's house are the only way she can get to her collection of more than 60 birds.

Just weeks before he died, Adella's estranged husband asked their daughter to help her mother clean up one last time.

The stench emanating from Robin's home can be smelled from the street. The garbage inside is piled from floor to ceiling and the house is literally caving in around it.

Carolyn's seven-year-old daughter is so distraught about her mother's hoarding that she has been leaving notes around the house saying, "It would be better off if I were killed."

Laura has terminal cancer and is in fragile health, but sleeping or resting is nearly impossible. The only open spot she can lay her head on is two-thirds of the living room couch.

Vula is hoarding more than 30 sickly cats that have completely destroyed her home.

Kathleen's hoard is so bad that her son gave up his college scholarship for fear of leaving his 16-year-old sister home alone with their mother.

After losing a cousin on 9/11, Dawn's hoarding spiraled out of control, filling much of the house and part of the yard.

Tami is battling cancer and her last hope for survival is a bone marrow transplant. But the condition of her home is getting in the way of her treatment.

Mary Lynn's 14 year-old-son Jacob would rather be in foster care than live with his own mother in her hoarded house.

Not even losing several inches of her intestine to gangrene has stopped Theresa from hoarding and eating expired food.

Al used to take his three-year-old son dumpster diving, but Child Protective Services recently removed the child from his home.

Lloyd's home is so filled that he's been forced to live in one of the many trailers on his property.

Arline's hoard has reached such immense proportions that her six-foot-three husband Richard has been sleeping in his car each night in the oppressive heat of a Hawaii summer.

On August 6th, the Police, the Fire Department, C.P.S. and Code Enforcement all descended upon Jim's house and told his family it was uninhabitable.

Andrew's home is an eyesore in a neighborhood of million dollar homes. The exterior and interior are completely hoarded.

19-year-old Andrew's mother is a hoarder, and after living in the hoard his entire life, he has learned no other way to live.

Mary has blown through over $200,000 buying items for the consignment shop she owns. But many of the items never make it from her hoarded home.

It's winter, and Hanna has hoarded herself and her 200 chickens out of her house and is now living with the chickens in a windowless, unheated trailer.

A collection of 2500 free-roaming rats have hoarded Glen out of his home and into a shed on his property.