More On Family Pets Displaced By Foreclosure
The following links are to recent stories on the stress placed on local pet shelters due to families losing their homes to foreclosure:
Salem, New Hampshire: Shelter houses pets homeless due to foreclosure (Over the past month, those over at the Salem Animal Rescue League have noticed a trend of pets being given up by people who have lost their homes in the subprime mortgage crisis),
Placer County, California: Mortgage crisis is hurting pets, too (In January, at least 20 percent of dogs and cats surrendered to the Placer SPCA shelter came from people who "lost their homes or were having such extreme financial difficulties" that they could no longer afford to care for them),
Vero Beach, Florida: As owners lose homes, so do many Treasure Coast pets (Since September, about six people a month have been saying their loss of housing is the reason they're giving their pets to the Humane Society of Vero Beach and Indian River County),
Fremont, Ohio: Overabundance of animals (Fremont shelter has no room for pets after drop-offs) (The number of animals at the Humane Society of Sandusky County has multiplied since a year ago. And part of the problem is attributed to animals being dropped off in the night. Several of them have been severely malnourished. A local animal cruelty investigator said the recent spike could be attributed to the housing-foreclosure issue that is affecting so many people in the area. "It's an ongoing problem with the foreclosures," Hammond said. "People are finding out their dogs don't fit with them. They're leaving their animals behind."),
Saugerties, New York: Foreclosures force farm animals out (In addition to pets, foreclosures are hitting horses, mules and donkeys. The Catskill Animal Sanctuary in Ulster County has seen a dramatic rise in calls — sometimes five a day — from people looking for a shelter for their large animals. Other local shelters have not yet noticed an uptick in animals because of foreclosures. "Most people don't go into detail — 'The house is being foreclosed on' — that might be more personal than they want to get with me," said Adam Saunders, shelter manager of the Ulster County SPCA, "but the most common reason is, 'I have to move, I can't take the pet with me.' It would make sense that that is happening more because there are more foreclosures going on."). See also, Money woes bring animals to shelter (NY Daily News).
Brentwood, California: Pets a growing casualty of the real estate market (As the real estate market continues to languish and foreclosures become more and more common, unwanted furniture isn’t the only thing being left behind when a mortgage turns upside down).
Illinois: Dogs, cats latest victims of subprime-mortgage mess (Animals lose families as owners lose homes) ("We're seeing quite a few animals being surrendered due to economic reasons, including foreclosure," said Angie Wood, assistant executive director of the Naperville Area Humane Society, [...] "We're probably getting 25 [animals] a week coming to us for those reasons," said Terri Sparks, a spokesman for The Animal Welfare League in Chicago, which works with 53 municipalities on animal-control issues. "It's probably increased a lot in the past six to seven months." Linda Gelb, president of Community Animal Rescue Effort, which works through the Evanston Animal Shelter, said her group has taken in four dogs in the past three weeks because their owners were losing their homes. [...] Authorities around the country in recent months have reported numerous findings of cats, dogs, birds, horses and other animals at foreclosed houses and farms. Among the more notorious cases, animals were found in large number -- three dogs and 20 birds in a house in Lorain, Ohio; 24 horses on a farm in Bixby, Okla.; and 63 cats in a house in Cincinnati. It was too late when authorities got to a foreclosed house in Bradford, Pa., to discover the bodies of 21 Great Danes. The owner on Thursday pleaded guilty to 21 counts of animal cruelty.)
For more on foreclosures and family pets, see Foreclosures & Pets I, and see Foreclosures & Pets II. petsII and foreclosures
Salem, New Hampshire: Shelter houses pets homeless due to foreclosure (Over the past month, those over at the Salem Animal Rescue League have noticed a trend of pets being given up by people who have lost their homes in the subprime mortgage crisis),
Placer County, California: Mortgage crisis is hurting pets, too (In January, at least 20 percent of dogs and cats surrendered to the Placer SPCA shelter came from people who "lost their homes or were having such extreme financial difficulties" that they could no longer afford to care for them),
Vero Beach, Florida: As owners lose homes, so do many Treasure Coast pets (Since September, about six people a month have been saying their loss of housing is the reason they're giving their pets to the Humane Society of Vero Beach and Indian River County),
Fremont, Ohio: Overabundance of animals (Fremont shelter has no room for pets after drop-offs) (The number of animals at the Humane Society of Sandusky County has multiplied since a year ago. And part of the problem is attributed to animals being dropped off in the night. Several of them have been severely malnourished. A local animal cruelty investigator said the recent spike could be attributed to the housing-foreclosure issue that is affecting so many people in the area. "It's an ongoing problem with the foreclosures," Hammond said. "People are finding out their dogs don't fit with them. They're leaving their animals behind."),
Saugerties, New York: Foreclosures force farm animals out (In addition to pets, foreclosures are hitting horses, mules and donkeys. The Catskill Animal Sanctuary in Ulster County has seen a dramatic rise in calls — sometimes five a day — from people looking for a shelter for their large animals. Other local shelters have not yet noticed an uptick in animals because of foreclosures. "Most people don't go into detail — 'The house is being foreclosed on' — that might be more personal than they want to get with me," said Adam Saunders, shelter manager of the Ulster County SPCA, "but the most common reason is, 'I have to move, I can't take the pet with me.' It would make sense that that is happening more because there are more foreclosures going on."). See also, Money woes bring animals to shelter (NY Daily News).
Brentwood, California: Pets a growing casualty of the real estate market (As the real estate market continues to languish and foreclosures become more and more common, unwanted furniture isn’t the only thing being left behind when a mortgage turns upside down).
Illinois: Dogs, cats latest victims of subprime-mortgage mess (Animals lose families as owners lose homes) ("We're seeing quite a few animals being surrendered due to economic reasons, including foreclosure," said Angie Wood, assistant executive director of the Naperville Area Humane Society, [...] "We're probably getting 25 [animals] a week coming to us for those reasons," said Terri Sparks, a spokesman for The Animal Welfare League in Chicago, which works with 53 municipalities on animal-control issues. "It's probably increased a lot in the past six to seven months." Linda Gelb, president of Community Animal Rescue Effort, which works through the Evanston Animal Shelter, said her group has taken in four dogs in the past three weeks because their owners were losing their homes. [...] Authorities around the country in recent months have reported numerous findings of cats, dogs, birds, horses and other animals at foreclosed houses and farms. Among the more notorious cases, animals were found in large number -- three dogs and 20 birds in a house in Lorain, Ohio; 24 horses on a farm in Bixby, Okla.; and 63 cats in a house in Cincinnati. It was too late when authorities got to a foreclosed house in Bradford, Pa., to discover the bodies of 21 Great Danes. The owner on Thursday pleaded guilty to 21 counts of animal cruelty.)
For more on foreclosures and family pets, see Foreclosures & Pets I, and see Foreclosures & Pets II. petsII and foreclosures
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