Why would someone live in a terraced house with 70 owls? Who’d happily live in the countryside with only a pack of Alsatians as company?

When does a love of animals become an obsession? Meet the Animal Addicts: pet lovers who collect scores of animals, sometimes hundreds, and whose passion for pets can become bizarre and unsettling, and sometimes end in prosecution. The sometimes disturbing film also talks to the RSPCA about their work and the terrible scenes they uncover at the homes of animal addicts.

Channel 4, Tuesday 1 May 2007