Poor people, poor pets

This story makes me very sad:

Across the [Boston] region, dogs and cats are arriving at shelters in growing numbers, as their owners face foreclosures and head to temporary homes, such as rental units or relatives' houses, where pets are not permitted or may not be welcome.

The separations are putting a strain on shelters already strapped for space and are making for teary scenes from Boston to Brockton, from Lowell to Worcester, as owners relinquish their longtime pets to uncertain futures. Some shelters euthanize animals that cannot be adopted.

-- "Owners Lose Homes, and Pets Suffer, Too," Boston Globe, Jan 26, 08

Nine years ago, when my sublease in San Francisco ran out, I left my beloved Inner Sunset neighborhood rather than rent an affordable place that wouldn't take Isabel. I figured it was the cost of having a pet. I may not agree with some of the choices people have made with regard to financing their houses, but my heart goes out to them for losing their pet on top of their home. And I hope anyone who's reading this remembers later on that all their financial choices will have repercussions down the line.

Comments

[Daytona Beach Florida Real Estate]

What a shame for those animals.

Where natural disasters come and people get displaced the animals suffer then also. There should be a way to take your pet with you on temporary basis till arrangements can be made. When people ask what can we do to help. This maybe one way to imediately help a family who has lost there home.

Having gone thru hurricanes in Florida and going further inland and smuggling animals into hotels I can understand the frustration.