More Victims of Foreclosure
August 4, 2008
If you follow my blog at all, you should probably already know that I am a huge animal lover. My wife and I have four pugs and two cats. I guess some would say we are on our way to becoming “those people” or the “cat couple.” Anyway, I’ve been noticing a lot of cats lately on the sides of highways and it has made me wonder if the economic situation in this country is making people dump their pets because they can no longer afford to feed them or give them the medical care that they deserve.
I’ve also noticed some stories of people that have found themselves in this situation. In fact, our adopted animal we found roaming a busy street very late at night. He looked to be a small kitten, but the truth be known, he was nine months old and weighed about 4.5 pounds. He literally was all skin and bones. We picked him up, put him in the car, and took him home and fed him and began giving him the attention and care that any living creature deserves. We have now rescued three of the six animals.
I realize that times are tough out there in the country, but I implore animal owners to not disgard of their four legged friends in such a way. There is often help out there for you with regards to food and care. Check with your local humane society. Many cities also have pet food banks as well as many of the regular food banks now have pet food available.
If you have room in your home and in your heart, there are many wonderful animals available for adoption. You can also help by donating to your humane society (they accept many items as well as money).
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Another thing we have in common, I’m the neighborhood animal person too. We have two dogs and six cats, recently it was only five but a female cat who was pregnant appeared to have been booted from her home. She lost the kittens but is now doing much better.
In this area with the no kill shelters being full and the price that people have to pay to surrender an animal to the one shelter that does have a kill policy if they can’t adopt the animal, many people do dump their animals…
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