People are forced to leave their houses, and many, their pets also
Saint was only six months old when his family’s home was repossessed due to foreclosure. Saint found himself at an Animal facility, frightened, confused and terrified.
When Pamela Hawes learned of Saint’s plight, she immediately adopted him. Saint cried all the way to his new home.
“He was like, where am I going?” Hawes, 45, recalled.
Animals like Saint do not always have such happy endings.
Across the country, the foreclosure crisis is forcing families to relocate and unfortunately also forcing them to leave their pets behind, said Barbara Dyer, state director for the Humane Society of the United States. “Some people no longer can afford to feed the animals, while others say goodbye because they are moving to rental homes where landlords forbids pets”.
“Animal shelters unable to care for the influx of animals might need to resort to putting the pets to sleep”, Dyer said.
“It’s not the shelters that are the bad guys.” she said. “They’re doing the best they can.”
“The Humane Society first noticed late last year that pets were suffering the effects of the historically high foreclosure rate”, Dyer said. “By March”, she said, “the society felt concerned enough about the problem to create the Foreclosure Pets Fund, which gives grants of up to $2,000 to help shelters and rescue groups care for the additional animals”.
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