Well... it is horrible that this is happening...but I cant say that Im completely angry at these homeowners either... Its so easy to judge these people like they are horrible monsters, but did anyone ever think about how bad they felt leaving their animals ??? I mean, these folks were trying to live "the american dream" of owning a home, having a family and a couple pets too. Who knew that our government & economy would take these folks dreams and squash em'... Just as quickly as some of these people got it, they lost it even faster. No one can forsee that ?!? A housewife trying to take care of her family probably didnt know that her husband would loose his job and not be able to find other employment for months and months?!? They probably didnt think their car would get repo'd, their util's would get cut off or that they'd have to find a place to live in 30 dys (sometimes less) after being evicted.... Then to make matters worse the ONLY place they could find to live was one that doesnt allow pets or requires an ADDITIONAL $500-1000 deposit (which they already dont have) for them to keep their pet, because not everyone has family/friends they can stay with in an emergency and not everyone has the cusion of a nice savings account. And lets not forget their children that need to be schooled, clothed and feed... Then they are faced with leaving the animal or taking it to a shelter, which is not a sanctuary... I mean, if a shelter cant place an animal... we all knows what happens, right???
I wont deny that the WAY some of these animals were left are down right cruel and its definately a problem
I love my pup and have wanted her for over 10 yrs..... so, I have that mental preperation to have back up plans in place for her if anything was to ever happen to me or my living situation. But not everyone thinks that way... Not everyone has access to sites like this and others that enlighten us about what animal abuse is, cruelty, endangerment and so much other information. I can be honest to say that half of the things I've learned about dogs have been from this site. So we cant fault people for being uninformed or mideducated or living in areas where they thought a certain treatment to an animal was normal. I really think that some of these people think they're doing the animals favors leaving them (thinking the next person in the home might take em), rather than taking them to a shelter where they have more potential of being killed anyway....
As I age... Im learning to "understand" the problems and not just "judge" them based off my opinion. This mortgage thing is NATIONWIDE.... There's no way ALL of those people can be horrible, cruel monsters... We have a serious problem people... and its a problem that starts with our own government..... JMO