tonight on "nightline," at home with hoarders. 97 dogs. 15 cats. and janice. we go inside the world of the animal hoarder. how do you deal with a house that looks like this? the special relationship. new british prime minister david cameron talks to diane sawyer about the war, bp and juggling fatherhood with the demands of his job in the "nightline" interview. and race war. inflammatory comments from this woman spark a major government race debate. but what does the argument really tell us about america in black and white? >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, martin bashir and cynthia mcfadden in new york city, this is "nightline," july

20th, 2010. >> good evening. i'm terry moran. and we're going to begin tonight with a strange phenomenon that many find simply unbelievable. animal hoarding, it's called. these are people that are far more than pet lovers. no, they are truly obsessed by the need to obtain and keep pets, sometimes by the dozen, sometimes by owning 100 or more. many of them choose to live in squalor rather than parting with their pets. our yunji de nies peered into this world and the psychological mind-set of animal hollywooders. >> reporter: olga watched helplessly as investigators removed dozens of animals, dogs, cats, pigeons, even a fox, some alive, many dead from her philadelphia home, a place where she says the animals were well cared for. >> i spare no expense. they're my babies. i have no husband or children to worry about. they were my children. >> reporter: this shocking scene

is all too common. >> one of the biggest animal hoarding cases ever. >> 250 dogs rescued from a home. >> pit bulls and more than 100 pigeons found living in filth. >> reporter: accost the country, men, women, young and old, share an addiction unlike any other. >> i go, how did it get this way? how did i let it get this way? >> reporter: the overwhelming need to collect and even control animals. the difference with animal hoarding is that this drug can love you back. >> such a sweet boy. >> reporter: this is lolet. what started as a rescue center for strays is now a house teeming with nearly 300 cats. >> i have a hard time saying no to a cat in need. >> reporter: every year thousands of americans hoard more than 250,000 animals, animal lovers like don. >> oh, you guys. >> reporter: he began with 1, 2, then 3 cats and now has more than 30.

>> one day you look down, and you've got 30 pairs of eyes looking at you going, are you going to feed me? >> reporter: don overcame an addiction to methamphetamines and seemingly replaced one habit with another. and then there's janice with 97 dogs and 15 cats crowded into her tiny trailer. janice began breeding yorkshire terriers. but she eventually added more breeds and stopped selling the puppies. she's lived like this for the last 12 years. >> my dogs are like my kids. clover, what are you doing? they're all sweet dogs. they're just incredible. >> reporter: caring for her kids is a full-time, exhausting job. >> it's constantly all day long that i have to just keep going behind them and filling the water back up, picking the paper back up, you know, putting new paper down. >> reporter: still, the trailer is never truly clean nor quiet.

janice hasn't seen her grandchildren in months. >> i mean as much as i love my grandkids, and believe me, that's a lot, but i also love my dogs, too. >> who else is going to bed? come on! you've seen these guys grow up from puppies, and you've taken care of them. >> come on. >> reporter: it's her daughter lindsay who eventually calls on dr. karen cassidy to set up an intervention. the goal? convince janice to give up all but two dogs and one cat. >> honestly speaking, if you were looking for a home for an animal, so let's say you were running a pet shelter, would you pick your place? >> it will be all right. >> here we go. cat in the box. >> reporter: it's a painful process. humane society volunteers fill an entire tractor trailer with animals as janice learns to let go. >> felt like i was pulling on my heart.

it's like i wanted to give them one more hug good-bye. >> reporter: it's been almost four months, but that moment is still tough to think about. when you walked back into the house and those trucks pulled away and you saw the empty cages, what was that like? >> it was hard. it was very hard. >> reporter: what were you feeling at that point? >> i felt good for the dogs. i knew that i did what i had to do, and, you know, but it was -- it was hard because i loved them. >> reporter: janice has moved into her daughter's home with just one cat and two dogs and says her life is better, but she still misses those dogs. i mean, that term, animal hoarder, do you think that applies to you? >> no, no. i don't think that applies to me because it wasn't something that i chose to do. >> reporter: do you see the hoarding parallel of someone who collects, let's say, clothes or -- i mean, you bought the initial dogs. >> but i didn't go out and buy

100 dogs. so, no, i don't see myself as an animal hoarder, no. i don't. >> reporter: even with 97 dogs? >> no, because i got put in that situation. >> reporter: that denial is typical. >> it goes with every animal hoarder. they fail to understand that all their love is is a good intention gone awry. >> reporter: for don, the threat of jail time finally forces him to surrender to animal control. workers find dangerously high levels of ammonia from all the urine and several gruesome surprises. >> what do we got here? what's this? >> reporter: after cleaning and new carpets, he has his life back. lolet also parts ways with her animals. 260 cats. most are put up for adoption. >> i felt that i could really trust them, so i let go of some cats that i did not plan to. >> reporter: and then, today,

janice is focusing on life with her grandchildren. but she's stopped seeing her therapist. >> janice would be likely to start rescuing more animals if she doesn't get help. unfortunately, 100% of animal hoarders relapse if they don't receive treatment. and it's because it's painful for them to let go of the animals, because they feel like the animals give them perfect love, and they give the animal perfect love and that feels like the only way they can derive satisfaction in life. >> reporter: you think you get enough love from two dogs in the same way you got love from so many other dogs? >> i get the same amount of love from each one of them. i can say that. it's definitely unconditional love because they love you no matter what. >> reporter: when you're with these two, do you ever miss the others? >> i always do. i'll always miss them. >> reporter: i'm yunji de nies for "nightline." >> a very different lifestyle.

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us, let alone companies like us, will get to a day like today. >> reporter: no one would believe it, because under armour has one of those american fairy tale stories that is almost too much of a fairy tale in 1995, as a mediocre college football player at the university of maryland, kevin decided that the cotton t-shirts he was wearing at practice were just too sweaty. what made you think -- who cares about a cotton t-shirt, that you sweat through? >> well, i was pretty short and slow, and so my incentive was giving me that little bit of an advantage. >> reporter: so, he made shirts with synthetic fabric that would wick away the sweat. he didn't invent the fabric. he just made the shirts. >> i'll make them up, send a few out, and i thought it was going to be easy. and the fact of the matter is, it doesn't work like that. >> reporter: he wracked up $40,000 in credit card debt in

his grandmother's basement. and a ton of hard work. but i saw first hand, plank is a guy who seems to like hard work. maybe too much. >> all right, so, welcome to combine training. this is going to be -- it's going to hurt a little bit. >> reporter: great. all mill interviews hurt a little bit. this one will be worse. >> no question. not as much up here. >> reporter: he invited me to one of his corporate workout sessions. i stupidly agreed. >> not that far. >> reporter: though they did let me wear a bunch of their gear. >> wear cotton? >> i haven't placed cotton on my body in 13 or 14 years. cotton is our enemy. >> reporter: pain is part of every day here. believe me, i barely survived. >> how does it feel? >> reporter: like 100 bucks. >> reporter: but plank survived the early years of under armour. the shirts became main stays in football locker rooms and landed some prime real estate in the film "any given sunday."

and then, there were the ads. the loud, aggressive, angry ads that starred plank's former college football teammate who was playing in the pros. >> it's us versus them. >> at that point, guys in the nfl playing who kind of saw me with the shirts on, kind of snickered a little bit because i had this tight-fitting shirt on, but when they saw the commercial -- commercial -- >> reporter: i wouldn't snicker at you. >> i still got it. >> reporter: the ad was such a key part of under armour's success, the they commissioned a statue to commemorate it. is the idea that everyone that wears it can look like you? >> you can. everybody can end up looking like me. we're going to get you smm and i guarantee that's when you'll get your statue. >> reporter: protecting the house is still is central theme to most of their ads. this is a new one for their women's line. >> don't let them beat you. are you going to protect this house? >> i will. >> what do you think? >> reporter: powerful. >> it's not soft. >> reporter: nope. >> that's not a noxema

commercial. >> reporter: plank has been just as aggressive in business. >> our goal and our vision is to be the world's number one performance brand. >> reporter: that means bigger than nike, all those guys. >> you use bigger. i say better. >> reporter: you said bigger before, too. you said number one. >> well, i'm not afraid of being bigger, but nothing's impossible. >> reporter: you go to the ball game, you walk down the street, you see ten kids walking down, a couple kids with nike, adidas. what dose through your head? >> opportunity. they haven't been introduced to our brand yet. >> reporter: under armour's growth hasn't been without growth. their products can be criticized as expensive. their rollout of running shoes last year was considered clumsy by some analysts. still, plank's desire to take down nike is palpable. it seems to me you're biting off a lot.

the other companies have been around for a long time. you have a nice thing going with your apparel. why pick this fight? >> you're right. those other companies are very old. >> reporter: you're picking a fight right now. >> reporter: it's a fight that fight right now. >> reporter: it's a fight that plank clearly enjoyed. now with nearly 3,000 employees worldwide and products ranging from the tight base levels to key parkas to basketball shoes, not to mention a roster of famous athletes wearing his gear, he is playing at an elite level. big college football game? >> everything is. sales is offense, financial and i.t. are special teams. >> reporter: are you still protecting the house? >> i make that the same job of my son when i leave and go and travel, everything else, too. yeah, his job -- >> reporter: how old is your son? >> 6. what do you do when daddy leaves? >> i protect the house. got to do it. >> reporter: i'm john berman for "nightline" in baltimore. >> protecting the house, indeed.

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>> announcer: "nightline" continues from new york city with terry moran. >> the new prime minister of britain is a fascinating, fresh face on the world scene. david cameron is his name. he's been in office for just over two months and he came to washington today on his first visit to meet with president obama. and the question was, how would these young leaders, one conservative and very, very upper crust, the other, not so much, manage one of the world's most important alinlss? prime minister cameron sat down with my colleague diane sawyer for the "nightline" interview. >> first official visit to the united states. >> yes. >> reporter: what is it you most want to get done, most want to say? >> it's a very important opportunity for me and for britain to make sure that the oldest alliance we have, the special relationship, as we see it, the essential relationship,

as i would call it, that it works well. >> reporter: i know you met barack obama before, but i'm curious, when you first met him, what was the thing personally you most wanted to know about him? what intrigued you the most? >> he's one of the calmest, coolest people i've come across. extremely friendly. very clear in his mind about what he believes and what he wants. >> we have just concluded some excellent discussions, including whether the beers from our hometowns that we exchanged are best served warm or cold. >> reporter: in just their second face to face meeting as heads of state, these two young leaders seem casual and relaxed with each other. >> i have to say, i was most impressed by how tidy your children's bedrooms were, and i think if the president of the united states can get his children to tidy their bedrooms then the british prime minister, it's about time he did exactly the same thing. >> reporter: because we're getting to know you for the first time, as prime minister, a couple of questions, if i can.

we saw incredible campaign vi t videos of you putting the dishes in the dishwasher. you have a new baby on the way. so, what's going to happen with the diapers now and the dishes now? >> well, there will be the usually family round about who does what. it must be possible to be a good prime minister and a good father and husband. but september and the arrival of a new one is going to test out that theory in this job, there are always 1,000 other things that you could do. you do have to find time for your family and children and for good reason. hopefully, one of the reasons you become prime minister is because you've got some balance and some sort of reasonable judgment you bring to the problems of life. >> reporter: balance, judgment. all would be asked for. the day cameron took office, confronted with one of those great problems of public office. the bp oil spill in the gulf. are you as angry about what

happened in the gulf as americans are? >> yes, i was very angry about it, because anyone who cares about the environment, when you see those pictures of oil pouring out of an underground well and doing so much environmental damage, doing so much damage to wildlife, to beaches, to livelihood, that makes you angry. and i want bp to sort it out. and they are sorting it out. they want to cap the well. they want to clean up the mess. they want to make those payments. >> reporter: did it trouble you how tough the president has been? at one point, he called bp reckless. at another point, he said he was looking for -- >> whose ass to kick. >> reporter: that is a direct quote. >> the president and i agree it is important bp does those things. >> reporter: did you have any differenceses with him on this? >> i'm interested in not making this a u.s./uk issue. it shouldn't be. bp has 39% of its shareholders, i think in the u.s., 40% in the uk. it's balanced. what matters is dealing with the issue.

and the issue is the spill in the gulf. the need to cap the well. the need to make the payments. rather than get into a war of words. i don't want to do that. >> reporter: afghanistan. >> yeah. >> reporter: are the international forces winning? >> i think we're making progress. are we losing too many lives there, yes. i would say that's the case. >> reporter: 321, perhaps more, fatalities, among british troops and we have seen those incredible scenes of the hearses in the village streets with the veterans saluting them as they go by. >> well, it is, by far, i mean, by a million miles, the biggest responsibility, the biggest challenge that i feel that i have responsibility for what happens, for the fact that we have troops in combat. for the fact those people are in harm's way. and i think very hard, all the time, are we in afghanistan, in the right way? for the right reasons? are we doing the right thing? and how can we do it better?

and that's one of the reasons i wanted to be here today, talking to the president, because in the end, it is going to be the british and the americans and other key allies in nato who either get this right or don't get it right. >> the new man there. our thanks to diane sawyer for that. we'll be right back, but jimmy kimmel with what's coming up next on "jimmy kimmel live." thanks, terry. coming up, jon hamm, j.b. smoouf thanks, terry. coming up, jon hamm, j.b. smoouf and ralph

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