Identifier: Season 3, Episode 6
Air Date: Mon., Sep. 27, 2010 (10:00 PM)
Network: A&E
Even Matt Paxton, my favorite personality on this series, couldn’t yell at Vula enough to satisfy me. This was bar none the single most disgusting house we’ve seen yet on this show. Covered in cat feces and urine and filled with dead animals, rot and garbage everywhere (she didn’t even have walking paths), Vula won’t take ownership for any of it.
It’s because someone else put a TV down over there. It’s because someone else did this. I like living this way. I’m very happy. Those cats are fine and they’re happy The ones with their eyes nearly swollen shut, skinny and starving? How about the 13 out of the 36 cats total who were dead. How happy were they?
It’s one thing to have a problem. It’s quite another to be so vehemently and stubbornly stupid that you refuse to face it. But the reality is that I think she does know how bad it is and how messed up she is. She’ll just never admit it to anyone else because that’s admitting that she’s in the wrong.
Possibly the most obvious failure upon leaving, it was surprising that her sons got her house to the point she could live in it six weeks after the camera crews moved on, but I don’t know how long it will last. There was a bizarrely sweet moment when they found the mama cat and her newborn kittens. Those lives were definitely saved by the intervention of the show. Maybe that was their main reason for going there. One of those cats is going to institute world peace someday!
Comparatively, Lisa’s home was completely different, as was she. She took full responsibility for the mess, and then had little problem getting rid of things. She wasn’t facing eviction like Vula. She just wanted to move forward in her relationship.
I don’t pretend to understand the condition, but it’s always odd to me when someone has virtually no emotional or psychological problem cleaning up. How can that be, I wonder, when you created this mess to begin with. That’s when I start to fall into the “laziness” category of judgment that we don’t want to do, but it’s so difficult to understand some of these people. It looks like, though, she may have picked up some bad habits from her mother, and her will to not be like her mom may have helped spur her to finalize the changes she needed to make this stick.
So…Vula was too sick for you (or too ‘fake’ sick) and Lisa wasn’t sick enough (though, apparently Lisa is your acceptable kind of sick) ?
You yourself claim to know little about the sickness that is hoarding, yet apparently you feel A-ok about judging it.
Let’s follow logic for a moment…you say you think Vula *knew* and didn’t care…well, then, kindly tell me what sane person, what healthy person would voluntarily live as she did, surrounded by dead cats, urine and feces?
A final note about your apparent approval of Lisa: this is *television,* edited totally and completely. Ask yourself what you weren’t allowed to see. Ask yourself why the network chose to play Vula and Lisa in the same episode. I would wager it’s so that people such as yourself are oh-so-easily led to believe exactly as they would have you believe about both women.
Never, ever, let yourself get lulled into the idea that the television gods are on your side, or that they ever give you the full story.
Doesnt justify that this sick bitch isnt accepting responsability cause she’s fucking sick !…..she’s sick and blind
Yes, she is sick. So why does everyone appear to be angry? Mental illness isn’t something the person does to anger *you* or mess up *your* life. Why don’t you get mad that there weren’t enough familial & community supports to have PREVENTED this from happening?
Enough people knew she lived in squalor for years. Something could have been done far earlier.
And there’s no need for that kind of language. It doesn’t make you sound knowledgeable or intelligent at all.