In a Slumping Housing Market, Pets Also Lose


	In a Slumping Housing Market, Pets Also Lose

urbanlife

1-23-2008 4:22 PM

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homeless, pets, housing, dog, cat, foreclosed

urbanlife says:

People releasing pets to fend for themselves, or simply leaving them to fate in abandoned dwellings. Notorious cases: over 60 cats that had been abandoned in a foreclosed Cincinnati house; 3 dogs and 20 birds left in a house in Lorain, Ohio; 24 horses on a farm in Bixby, Okla.; and the bodies of 21 Great Danes in a foreclosed house in Pennsylvania.

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