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Subprime crisis takes toll on pets
a sad article.
who are the idiots who do these things? they deserved to be hanged not just lose their homes. ---------------- Subprime crisis takes toll on pets CHICAGO: Forget about the lost furnishings and finances, the most pitiful victims of the subprime mortgage crisis rocking the United States are the family pets. Shelters across the country have seen sharp upticks in the number of people giving up their pets in recent months because they have been forced out of their homes. And - more tragically - neighbours, police and foreclosure agents are finding increasing numbers of pets left to fend for themselves in abandoned homes. "We're finding too many animals who have starved to death," said Stephanie Shain, director of outreach for the Human Society of the United States. While some people dump their pets on the street, others go so far as to lock the animal in a closet where their cries for help are harder to hear, she said. It can take weeks for an animal to starve to death and desperate scratch and bite marks are usually found on doors and windows. "They will eat anything - furniture, or carpet or wallboard - to try to ingest something," Shain said in a telephone interview. "It's a very fearful and frantic and panicked situation for that animal to be in." While there are no national statistics tracking how many animals are abandoned or dropped off at shelters, Shain said anecdotal evidence has shown "huge spikes" in areas hardest-hit by the housing downturn that shows no sign of easing. Nearly two million families lost their homes to foreclosure in the first 11 months of last year after failing to keep up with mortgage payments, a hefty chunk of which were subprime loans. The Humane Society recently instigated a public-awareness campaign to offer tips on finding animal-friendly rental housing and remind people that pets are much better off in a shelter. In one of the more shocking stories, more than 60 cats were found abandoned in a foreclosed home in Cincinnati last May, shortly after the foreclosure rate began to spike nationally. Twenty of those cats are still being fostered while awaiting a permanent home, according to Foreclosurecats.org, a group which launched art projects to help finance the cost of caring for the kitties. Most are not as lucky. Shelters across the country are habitually overcrowded and underfunded. Even animals which stand a good chance of being adopted are often euthanized in order to free up much-needed space. |
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Subprime crisis takes toll on pets
On Jan 26, 7:34*pm, wrote:
a sad article. who are the idiots who do these things? *they deserved to be hanged not just lose their homes. ---------------- Subprime crisis takes toll on pets CHICAGO: Forget about the lost furnishings and finances, the most pitiful victims of the subprime mortgage crisis rocking the United States are the family pets. Shelters across the country have seen sharp upticks in the number of people giving up their pets in recent months because they have been forced out of their homes.... The sub-prime crisis is also a symptom of human overpopulation. People pretend that wealth can be infinite in a finite world, not seeing that it's a pyramid scheme. It's unrealistic to expect everyone to afford mini mansions or even modest houses, with land constantly being depleted. Also consider water supplies, crop acreage, roads and infrastructure needed to sustain perpetual growth. It has to come from somewhere and that somewhere keeps shrinking. You can't live on a frontier when it's mostly gone. There's much talk of "pet overpopulation" but the real population crisis is human, with a 75 MILLION world annual gain, 3 MILLION of which is added to America each year. These people take up space and they clamor for more stuff all the time. The idea that a constantly growing population can maintain a high standard of living defies mathematics and natural laws. Money and credit just delay the inevitable crash. E.A. http://enough_already.tripod.com/ Economic growth: the endless replacement of nature with people. |
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Sub-prime crisis takes toll on pets
As Licensed Realtor and a dog owner, I am both involved in and affected by
this issue. Here in the middle-west - considered fly by country, Ohio, we are the second largest foreclosure state in the country - only behind Michigan. Having personally run into abandoned animals in properties, it's one of the sorriest things you can imagine. A miserable animal, waiting patiently for its people to come home. Driven by hunger, often madness claims them and it's no time at all before a dog or cat's feral nature takes over. Heartbreaking. Truly heartbreaking. As for the subprime issue. I can tell you it affects everyone, regardless of your politics. Mortgages backed securities are uninsured investments. Sold off in bundles to investors, it is their collapse that has contributed in no small part to the recent drop on Wall Street and throughout the world. Finger pointers abound, but the truth of it is that with deregulation of banking, the rise of mortgage companies who could sell a botique of loan products, along with prospective home owners desiring bigger...bigger...bigger...(and couldn't qualify for it), you have the mess you see today. With loans long sold off from their originators and in the hands of portfolio managers, government intervention may be a partial answer. As in most financial crises situations, the vunerable suffer; here in this case, abandoned animals. Unfortunately, with owners long gone, it is difficult to prosecute who you haven't caught. That leaves the "clean up" to the animal lovers. With a houseful of castaways ourselves, we shake our heads and say: "there's always dog..." (the)duckster |
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