This from today's paper, Corpus Chrisit Caller Times
Pets Emerge As new Victim Of home Forclosures Shelters trying to keep up with abandonment.
Stockton, Calif.--The house was ravaged--it's floors ripped, walls busted, and lights smansed by owners who trashed their home befoe a bank forclosed on it. Hidden in the wreckages a an abandoned memeber of the family: a starving pit bull.
The dog found by workers was too far gone to save--another example of how pets are becoming the newest victims of the nation's mortgage crisis as homeowners leave animals behind when they can no longer afford their property.
Pets "are getting dumped all over", said Traci jennings, president of the Humane Society of Stanislause County in northern California. "Farmers are finding dogs dumped on their grazing ground while houe cats are showing up in wild cat colonies."
Property insepctors and real estate brokers have discoverd dogs tied to trees in backyards, cats in garages, and turtles, rbbits and lizards in children's bedrooms.
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The article goes on to say that shelters are trying to keep up, but so many are being turned in and few people are adopting. It also states how the home woners know week, months ahead o time they are going to lose their house, yet do nothing about trying to find places for the pets.
We actually hvae the same problem here with navy families leaving their pets behind in the yard or house. They get a transfer and just leave the cat/dog behind. I have heard this from both my vet and from the little rescue here
I just have such a hard time thinknng about people doing things like this. makes me sick. If you aren't going to take the pet, aren't going to try to get it to a rescue or shelter, it would be more humane to sned it to the brdge than leave it locked up in the empyt house or tied outside without food and water to suffer and die a slow painful death if not foudn.