That is what you might think but in reality people in Foreclosure are not always neatly packing up and planing out their next move.... It would be too easy to think well if they fell behind on house payments what would you expect ??? Real irresponsible totally obvious...
But the tragedy is you never know , When a family falls apart and everyone starts blaming everyone the family pets are simply not the higest priority. If your kids hate you cause your moving, your spouse can barely get out of bed for depression and there is no gas in the car ...? After over 35 years with the same company it had been bought out and My very talented hardworking husband was made to take a very early retirement . Our financial planing needed at least 10 more years of employment. So he took the best job he could find, It was the first time in over 4 decades he had to do pyhsical labor. The plant was unsafe and he was badly injured , the nuerologist felt he was a hard bump away from being a Quadriplegic. Our family struggled painfully for the next few years , he was disabled and they denied his workers comp, the case had to go to court and what a mockery that was !! Our credit was ruined and bankruptcy was a painful pill for a very proud man to swallow. Eventually he had a life saving operation and while he will never be the same he and I are blessed we are still in love and together. He still works and he is 67. ( looks late 50s) If he did not work we would be sitting in each others pockets 24/7 and we would never survive that !! We fought back and managed to prevail , our savings are gone but we are making it back slowly but surely ! We have different values then many other people , instead of simply putting our own needs first we contiued to help family , we cut back but continued with our dogs and the kids. But we are honest enough to know there were times when we were close, so very close to losing everything.
Every year there is a hurricane there are abandoned pets. Fathers, Mothers even Single follk can not always stop and say Hey I'm taking the dog too ... If you all had seen the shelter in Gulfport Ms after Katrina you would have a tiny clue as to how devastaing life can be. People opened the doors and left the dogs , cats etc because they can not take them. They have to get the kids , Grandma and the important papers... As we have evacuated each time ( Except Katrina and George) we have taken every dog but there was no room in the RV for ALL the dogs and ALL the CATs and ALL the People.... We have had to make the cats as safe and comfy as we could so we could get 10 people and as many as 8 dogs out of the path. The cats go into dog crates into my bedroom closet which is the safest room in the house. Water and food is left for them and they remain in our prayers. We ALWAYS return as soon as there is an all clear. In Gulfport some owners being more concerned about their pets dropped them off at the pound , even though it was a known kill shelter. They had 20 + dogs cramed in almost every run ,more in crates or even boxes. The area was devastated and 2 weeks after the hurricane many of these dogs and cats that had been dropped off by crying families were being Euthanized because the families did not have homes to come back to, jobs were gone lives had been changed forever.
Was this wrong?? Absolutely, but in the center of my heart I keep seeing parents at the end of their rope, feeling beyond failures holding off on getting rid of the family pet until it is too late because it was unbearably hard.... not correct thinking BUT I honestly can see it.... and it is beyond a crying shame. And as some one else said maybe they had made arrangements for a friend or aquaintance to pick the dog up?? When life spirals out of control the innocent do get hurt.....
tragically it will get worse before it gets better.
Bonita of Bwana