Boy this story makes me mad. I work for a real estate company and we have a foreclosure dept that handles the sale for the various banks that have foreclosed on homes for one reason or another. It takes about a year and in many cases longer to actually foreclose on these homes. That means that these people have lived all that time basically rent free. To top it off, sometimes they are multifamily homes and they collect the rent every month from the tenants and don't pay a dime to the bank they owe money too. If that's not enough, the bank frequently pays what is called "cash for key's" this is an incentive to move out of the house usually by month end and leave the home in "broom swept" condition. This saves the bank money in the long run because otherwise they have to evict the people and remove their belongings paying to have the home "trashed out" sometimes thousand of dollars and the remaining items of value are placed in storage also at the banks expense. Forgive me, but I have a hard time feeling sorry for someone who has that much advance time to plan and just leaves their pets behind to fend for themselves. Thankfully, I can only think of one instance ever where a pet was left behind.
