RSSMortgage Crisis: Women, the poor and Fluffy Hardest Hit?
J.J. Jackson* | February 2, 2008
At the risk of sounding insensitive to some passing liberal feeling good about themselves, I get tired of hearing about how every time there is a “crisis” or something “goes wrong” that it is the women and the poor that are hardest hit by it. Well, now they might have some competition - from Fluffy and Fido:
STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) - The house was ravaged—its floors ripped, walls busted and lights smashed by owners who trashed their home before a bank foreclosed on it. Hidden in the wreckage was an abandoned member of the family: a starving pit bull.The dog found by workers was too far gone to save—another example of how pets are becoming the newest victims of the nation’s mortgage crisis as homeowners leave animals behind when they can no longer afford their property.
Pets “are getting dumped all over,” said Traci Jennings, president of the Humane Society of Stanislaus County in northern California. “Farmers are finding dogs dumped on their grazing grounds, while house cats are showing up in wild cat colonies.”
In one such colony in Modesto, two obviously tame cats watched alone from a distance as a group of feral cats devoured a pile of dry food Jennings offered.
“These are obviously abandoned cats,” Jennings said. “They’re not afraid of people, and they stay away from the feral cats because they’re ostracized by them.”
Gee, somehow I am not surprised that people that were irresponsible with their mortgages and other people’s money that they promised to pay back are also so irresponsible that they would abandon their pets. Not surprised on bit.
Update:
Michelle Malkin wrote about this too and echos some thoughts that I wouldn’t be surprised to learn come to pass
But it’s all someone else’s fault, of course.Maybe Hillary will propose federal subsidies for animal shelters as part of her grand housing rescue next.
Scarry that I don’t ddoubt this as a possibility isn’t it?
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Sad yet somehow funny in that it shows the mentality that we are dealing with. You can give a man a fish - but it doesn’t mean he’ll know how to cook it.
Poor Fluffy! I have more compassion for these homeless animals than the people that should have behaved better and been more responsible.