Guardia Civil agents have confiscated 23 cats from a property in the Les Roquettes area. The 74 year old owner of the property has suffered from Noah syndrome.
Noah syndrome is a variant of Diogenes syndrome that presents itself as ‘animal hoarding in squalid conditions’. It is a mental disorder that leads people who suffer from it to accumulate domestic animals obsessively, compulsively and pathologically. This includes buying, adopting or, as happens most of the time, picking up stray animals.
Last week in Les Roquetes, agents of the ‘Servicio de Protección de la Naturaleza’ (SEPRONA) division at the Guardia Civil barracks in Vilanova i la Geltrú, in coordination with the Local Police of Sant Pere de Ribes, confiscated 23 adult cats that were ‘misliving’ in a town flat with a 74-year-old owner. Thanks to the alert from some neighbours, SEPRONA agents had previously noted ‘numerous violations of the Animal Protection Law’, but they could not intervene until they obtained judicial permission.
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