One Group Of Victims In Need Of "Foreclosure Rescue"

The Dallas Morning News recently reported on the plight of one group of victims in need of foreclosure rescue:

• Some of the saddest victims of the home mortgage meltdown don't walk away when their home goes into foreclosure. Real estate agents who sell foreclosed homes say they sometimes find pets left behind when the owners clear out. They come to the rescue of starving cats abandoned in vacant houses and desperate dogs chained up in overgrown back yards. "I keep dog food and cat food in my car, and leashes," said Connie Zetterlund, a Coldwell Banker agent who sells foreclosed houses. "I'm running out of people to give animals to." Along with left-behind furniture, vandalism and damage done by copper thieves, she and other foreclosure agents occasionally must cope with the pets that people cast off when their houses wind up in foreclosure.

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