"'If you don't take Fluffy, I will be forced to take her to the pound.' Nobody is forcing them except themselves," she wrote. "

Foreclosure Pets in the Crossfire

How shelter philosophies affect their lives

By Christie Keith, Special to SF Gate

Thursday, September 4, 2008

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Falling real-estate prices and a worsening economy have added up to foreclosure for more than a million American families. Many of them aren't sure how to keep the kids in school, their marriage together, or their dignity. And if they're one of the 60 percent of U.S. households with pets, they may well find themselves unable to muster up the emotional energy to know what to do about their animals, either.

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People whose lives are coming apart often make the terrible decision to leave their pets behind in an empty home, where they're often not discovered until they've starved to death. Although a law was recently passed in California making it easier for lenders and animal-control officers to remove pets from empty homes, the sad problem of "foreclosure pets" persists.

Read the rest. A few resources for people to checkout before they bring their pets to the pound.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/09/04/petscol.DTL

The No-Kill Guru Speaks about Foreclosure and the Failure of Los Angeles Animal Services
http://nathanwinograd.blogspot.com/2008/09/news-from-sheltering-world.html