http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/2008-03-24-foreclosures-pets_N.htm
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They're arriving by the thousands every month, homeless, hapless
victims of foreclosure.
Family pets, their lives upended by the ravaged finances of their
owners, are landing in animal shelters in large numbers in some
parts of the country.
....
"The fate of people's pets tracks with their own financial fate,"
says the ASPCA's Steve Zawistowski. He adds that although some
shelters have been largely unaffected, "there are pockets" where so
many homeowners are losing their homes that the number of pets
relinquished to shelters, turned loose or abandoned is increasing
dramatically. The pockets probably will spread with a deteriorating
economy, he says.
....
The Pennsylvania SPCA is waiving for foreclosure victims the fees
associated with its "good-home guarantee" program, which promises
the shelter will keep the pet as long as it takes to find a new
home. "With everything else they're going through, (people who
foreclose) should not have to worry that their animal will be
euthanized," CEO Howard Nelson says. At least 10 families have
taken advantage of the program in less than three months.
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So there ought to be a law that the government pays the mortgage if
you have a pet. If you have two pets, the government should pay for
you and pay for your neighbour's house, you did a good deed for
him! If you've got three pets, the government steps up for the
fellow across the street. Four and you've got you a block party
going. If you are like the Dog Lady from Tucson, who had eight
hundred canine
companions and eighty two caged parrots living in filth and grime
and
coughed up fur balls, the federal government should just buy your
entire city free houses:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080313/ap_on_re_us/dogs_seized
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TUCSON, Ariz. - About 800 small dogs, including Chihuahuas,
terriers and Pomeranians, were seized from a triple-wide mobile
home whose occupants were overwhelmed trying to care for the
animals, authorities said Wednesday.
Pima County sheriff's deputies and animal welfare officials who
removed the dogs also found 82 caged parrots in the home in a rural
area northwest of Tucson.
Some dogs were pregnant and giving birth as they were taken to
shelters in Tucson, said Jenny Rose, a spokeswoman for the Humane
Society of Southern Arizona. Ninety-six dogs were taken from the
house Monday and another 700 on Wednesday, she said.
"The home was definitely in very bad condition, urine and feces all
over the home, in the kitchen and bedroom, with a very strong
odor," she said. "Obviously, 800 dogs in a triple-wide mobile home,
they were packed in there. That being said, they were in pretty
good shape."
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