1.0link84116<![CDATA[Owners Ditch Pets After Houses Foreclose]]>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/30/owners-ditch-pets-after-h_n_84116.htmlThe 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.