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Foreclosure Victims Also Furry

Posted Mar 25, 08 1:36 PM CDT in Business,  US 

(Newser) – As foreclosure rates skyrocket around the country, animal shelters are feeling a heartbreaking byproduct: an influx of pets being surrendered, USA Today reports. Across the country, areas with high foreclosures are seeing increased rates of pet abandonment, and shelters worry that even more could be coming as unemployment rates rise and affects renters.

"The fate of people's pets tracks with their own financial fate," said one official, and the Humane Society is responding with a $15,000 fund to help shelters handle the boom. A big priority is convincing homeowners fearful that their pets will be euthanized not to set them loose or leave them in deserted houses—a move that usually results in needless suffering.

Source USA Today

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Kevin Schumacher, an animal control officer with the City of Fernley, Nev., assists Esther Levine with her pets on Sunday, Jan. 6, 2008, as they are taking the pets to an animal shelter.   (AP Photo/Brad Horn)
A dog looks up at the camera in this undated file photo.   (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
Dogs are displayed for adoption at the Stockton Animal Shelter in Stockton, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2008.   (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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