I just read an article about how pets are the latest casualty of the mortgage/foreclosure crisis going on right now...
The article stated that many cats are being abandoned and are turning to feral cat colonies in hopes of survival, only to be ostracized by the feral cats because they're too tame). It said how dogs are being found chained to trees or in abandoned homes starving and close to death. Many home inspectors are going into foreclosed homes only to find these animals as well as turtles, frogs, hamsters and other pets just left in rooms with no food or water and no one to care for them!
How can this be?
I think its horrible and devastating to lose your home - I make no light of foreclosure. But I think its even more outrageous for people to just abandon their pets like this... Many are moving to places (apartments, shelters, etc) that do not allow pets, however if this is the case, then why on Earth would they think just leaving them abandoned is a good idea??
There are plenty of options that are more humane. Although shelters are risky because of the chance of euthanasia (which I don't agree with), at least these animals would have a humane remainder of their lives being fed and taken care of. And their hope for finding a new family is greater rather than just being left like yesterday's newspaper.
The problem with our society is that collectively, we are a disposable society. Don't like your hair color? Change it. Aren't happy with your marriage? Divorce your spouse. We don't want your pets anymore? Just leave them. And while there isn't anything harmful about changing your hair color, just imagine being that abandoned animal who gave only unconditional love to their human only to be tossed in the end. That makes me furious!
I hope people like that get what they deserve in the end....
Horrible. Just horrible.
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