Waiting List Up To 25 As Chicago-Area Animal Rescue Farm Forced To Turn Away Foreclosure Pets

In Tinley Park, Illinois, The Southtown Star reports:

• [S]everal residents who lost their homes to foreclosure now are renting and couldn't keep their dogs. That's left Dazzle's Painted Pastures animal rescue farm [...] with a slew of new friends, so many there's now a waiting list and a call for donations.

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• The dogs started coming in around May. One by one, owners tearfully dropped off their best friends. Now there's a waiting list of up to 25 dogs. "It breaks my heart to tell people I cannot take their dogs," Hamill said. "They're crying on the phone." Hamill said she gets seven to eight calls a day from people who need to drop off their four-legged pets.

For more, see Homeowners drop off dogs to animal rescue farm (Now farm needs donations, has waiting list).

For a similar story from Boston, Massachusetts, see WCVB-TV Channel 5: Shelters Overwhelmed By Abandoned Pets (Foreclosure Crisis Hits Local Pet Owners).

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