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Animal Protection Groups Introduce Legislation to Protect Pet Victims of Foreclosure
Animals  (tags: animal protection groups, legislation, protecting pets, foreclosure )

Simone
- 1840 days ago - aspca.org
--Assembly Member Mark DeSaulnier (D-Concord), the California Animal Association (CAA) and the ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) announce the hearing of Assembly Bill 2949, which will clarify current law to allow bank
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The HSUS Launches Grant Program to Help Families Care for Pets Through Tough Financial Times
Animals  (tags: animals, pets, HSUS, grants, economic recession, foreclosure )

Cher
- 1840 days ago - petloverstips.com
Financial times are not improving, foreclosure rates are skyrocketing, animal shelters are busting at the seams with pets that are being turned in because families lose their homes and can no longer keep them.
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Economic Woes Affecting Furry Friends! Video!
Animals  (tags: pets, foreclosure, SPCA, animals, dogs, cats, environment, protection )

Cher
- 1844 days ago - cbs3.com
With the U.S. economy taking a nose dive, people are not the only ones suffering. Many families cannot afford to keep their pets and it is putting a serious strain on animal shelters. The Pennsylvania SPCA has seen an increase of owners leaving their
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Left Behind
Animals  (tags: foreclosure, pets, left behind, abandoned, animal shelters, best friends animal society, rescuers )

Simone
- 1848 days ago - news.bestfriends.org
No one will forget the lost looks on the faces of pets abandoned after Hurricane Katrina. Best Friends Animal Society came to the rescue of thousands of them. Today, Best Friends is helping victims of another disaster - an economic disaster. For many
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4 Ways To Help Foreclosure Pets
Animals  (tags: foreclosure, animal advocates, helping animals, pets, animal welfare, homeless animals )

Simone
- 1867 days ago - elainevigneault.com
Is there anything we can do about these foreclosure pets? I've been thinking and I came up with a few ways we can help: If you have room in your home and heart to foster or adopt an animal, please do it. Fostered animals relieve some of the burden on
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Foreclosures Slam Doors on Pets, Too
Animals  (tags: foreclosure, homeless, humans, pets, animals, abandoned, dumped, shelters, sadness, tragedy )

Simone
- 1867 days ago - usatoday.com
They're arriving by the thousands every month, homeless, hapless victims of foreclosure. Family pets, their lives upended by the ravaged finances of their owners, are landing in animal shelters in large numbers in some parts of the country.
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The Littlest Victims
Animals  (tags: animal victims, foreclosure, homeless animals, animal shelters )

Simone
- 1869 days ago - mlive.com
They are the innocent victims of the national housing crisis and Michigan's economic slump -- dogs and cats abandoned by people who have lost their homes to foreclosure or were forced by a job loss to relocate. The number of pets dropped off at area
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Castaway Canines
Animals  (tags: foreclosure, pets abandoned, dumped, forgotten, animal shelters, homeless animals )

Simone
- 1879 days ago - freep.com
When a car pulled away from a home on Keating Street near 8 Mile Road in late January, it left behind an unkempt white poodle. "They drove off and the dog was trying to follow them, running after the car," said Deborah Thurman, shelter director for
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Pets Also Feel 'Foreclosure'
Animals  (tags: foreclosure, pets, left behind, abandoned, dumped, homeless, frightened, lonley )

Simone
- 1879 days ago - tradingmarkets.com
New casualties of the subprime mortgage crisis are starting to show up at the Pasadena Humane Society -- "foreclosure pets," whose owners abandon or take them to shelters when they move out to apartments that don't allow animals. Learn Which Are The
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Abandonment: Pets Paying the Price for Sagging Economy
Animals  (tags: pets, foreclosure, homes, abandonment, animals, AnimalWelfare, dogs, cats, protection, environment )

Cher
- 1881 days ago - goodnewsforpets.com
Call it trickle down economics - the nation's economic woes have trickled down to impact family members with fur or feathers. In some places, there's a real crisis. It all began with the home foreclosure wave. Economically strapped families, suddenly need
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Foreclosure Animals Need a Lifeline, Too
Animals  (tags: foreclosure, animal victims, human victims, animal shelter, animal welfare, lifeline )

Simone
- 1913 days ago - vindy.com
Recently, at the animal shelter where I volunteer, a family whose home was being foreclosed on the next day came in to surrender their cat. They had no place to live, and the 5-year-old cat had been a treasured member of their family since she was a
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A Safe Haven for Animals
Animals  (tags: foreclosure, haven for animals, sanctuary, saved, rescued animals, neglected animals, safe )

Simone
- 1913 days ago - zwire.com
Rising fuel and food costs can make it difficult to pay the mortgage, but try having 61 mouths to feed. Home foreclosures and increasing bills are forcing otherwise caring horse and large-breed dog owners to abandon or neglect their four-legged family
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Moving On: Remember Your Pets
Animals  (tags: animals, foreclosure, abandoned, AnimalWelfare, environment, pets, protection )

Cher
- 1930 days ago - northcountrygazette.org
It's a tragic occurrence that's happening every day in America--families are being forced out of their homes when banks foreclose on their mortgages. But just because a family loses its home doesn't mean that the family pet must lose both his home and his
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Owners Lose Home, and Pets Suffer, Too
Animals  (tags: animals, foreclosure, surrender for adoption, animals, AnimalWelfare, pets, protection, sadness )

Cher
- 1941 days ago - boston.com
The wreckage of the subprime mortgage crisis has caused human pain far and wide, but its victims also include a band of seven gentle, woolly-coated huskies. Their owner was a recent widow facing eviction from her foreclosed home. She had brought the dogs
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Dogs, Cats Latest Victims of Subprime-Mortgage Mess
Animals  (tags: dogs, cats, pets, foreclosure, subprime mortgage, homeless pets, animal shelter, sad )


- 1944 days ago - chicagotribune.com
Animals lose families as owners lose homes.
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