Akron Animal Shelter Affected By Area Foreclosures

In Akron, Ohio, the Akron Beacon Journal reports:

• The Humane Society of Greater Akron, which rescues ill, injured, abused or neglected animals, is struggling to house 200 dogs and 200 or so cats in a facility designed for only 125 animals, said new executive director Karen Conklin. She has issued a plea for adoptions. The animals ''just keep coming,'' she said this week inside the ramshackle shelter -- a former barn attached to a two-story building on Quick Road in Boston Township. [...] Conklin speculated that the the high foreclosure rate is contributing to the overcrowding. She theorized that pet owners are forced to move into properties that don't allow pets. ''Our humane officers are definitely seeing people leaving animals behind'' in foreclosed properties, said Conklin [...] .

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