Mortage crisis still affecting pets

Back in January, I blogged about an article telling how animals are being given to shelters or abandoned when their owners lose their homes.

It seems like every day I see a couple more articles on the subject.

Here's one from the Greenwich (Conn.) Time.

Pet abandonments are part of a growing trend in California, Ohio and other states hit hard by the subprime mortgage crisis, said Nancy Peterson, an issues specialist for the Humane Society of the United States. The non-profit organization has established a Foreclosure Pets Grant Fund to collect donations and subsidize shelters taking in pets that have been surrendered or abandoned by those losing homes.

"It's a problem I've seen in Boston, Denver, Colorado, Sacramento and other cities," Peterson said.

A Google search for "housing crisis pets" came back with about 276,000 articles.

And it is from the subprime mortgage debacle and fewer rental properties allowing pets.

This is sad on so many levels.