Background: Animal hoarding has been portrayed as a manifestation of hoarding behaviour that is escalating worldwide. Professionals trying to support or help animal hoarders face several challenges due to the lack of systematized information on intervention strategies.
Aims: To comprehensively review and systematize the information available on intervention practices with this population.
Method: A scoping study was performed using five databases (B-ON, EBSCO, SCOPUS, Web of SCIENCE, PubMed), searching for papers published until March 2020. Fifteen papers were selected and submitted to thematic analysis.
Results: The main findings point to two main themes: (i) what is done-responding to animal hoarding as an emergency; and (ii) what should be done-responding animal hoarding in a long-term, integrated manner.
Conclusions: To have a consistent strategy that assures better results, it seems relevant to prepare community interventions based on collaborative and solution-focused approaches. In addition, there is a strong need to have more research on animal hoarding and on successful intervention strategies.
Keywords: Animal hoarding; Noah syndrome; intervention; scoping study.