Losing a pet along with the house:
The families started coming in during the winter, parents and kids gathered in the cramped lobby of the Montgomery County Humane Society shelter to hand over their pets. It's a largely hidden consequence of the housing meltdown: a spike in the number of animals being turned in or abandoned as families are forced from their homes.
Here we go. I can imagine the new face of the mortgage crisis is going to be a sad puppy. God help those predatory lenders now.
Not all area jurisdictions are reporting similar activity. In the District, animal control officials said they have no way of determining whether the animals they receive are economic refugees.
Economic refugees? We're talking cats and dogs here, cats and dogs. Pets are not people. Is a little perspective too much to ask?
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