Just Another Linn County Collector

This time, a couple dozen dogs were living in horrendous conditions, all now at Oregon Humane in Portland. Click post title to go to story.

From the description of the property, sounds like this is a classic collector. They can't get rid of junk either, usually. Linn County has a lot of collectors. Also, for some reason, there are many people I've run into in this county who seem to think it is normal to never clean up and to live with piles of clothes, newspapers, trash, even animal feces all around them, sometimes walking trails in their residence between stacked high piles of junk, trash and dirty clothes. The yards or property where these types live is often filled with junked cars and machinery, junk of all sorts.

I don't understand why, is the thing, there are so many of people who choose to live like this in one county. Is it something in the air, in the water, in the genetic makeup of the people who live here, or are a certain type of people attracted to Linn County. Or is this a type of mental illness rampant here? Is it handed down learned behavior? I do not have the answers.