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Abandoned Pets

Retired Couple Save Abandoned Pets

The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abandoned Pets, Unemployed, Toledo, Unemployment, Homelessness, Toledo Free Press, Detroit, Camping, Health Insurance, Campground, Stray-Cats, Pre-Existing-Condition, Tri-City Times, Bearing Witness, Bearing Witness 2.0, Politics News

A retired couple in Eastern Michigan has opened their home and their hearts to desperate cats abandoned by their owners as they were forced out of the...

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HAPPY for Pets

Michael Markarian | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Veterinarians, Thaddeus McCotter, Pet Care, Pets, Animals, Recession, American Vetrinary Medical Association, Abandoned Pets, Household Budgets, Animal Rights, Tax Deductible, Animal Welfare, Euthanized, Economic Stimulus, Adopting Pets, Safety Net, Tax Deductions, Politics News
Michael Markarian

By encouraging affordable pet care, the bill not only promotes animal health and well-being, as well as our well-being, but could also help to stimulate the economy.

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Adopt-A-Less-Adoptable-Pet Day

Betsy Saul | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Old Dogs, Abandoned Pets, Animal Rights, Animal Welfare, Pets, Pet Adoption, Petfinder, Animal Abuse, Old-Cat, Adopting Pets, Dog Adoptions, Adoption, Animal Shelter, Living News
Betsy Saul

it is heartbreaking to see wonderful pets staying in shelters day after day, year after year -- just because they are too large or too shy, have broken limbs, or are the "wrong" color.

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Rescued by the House No One Wanted

Tina Traster | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Rescue, Old House, Suburbia, Burb Appeal, Rescue Plan, Abandoned Pets, Pets, Home Prices, Home Sales, House Renovation, Adopting Pets, Happiness, Adoption, Living News
Tina Traster

I have a thing for rescue. Put in certain circumstances I act before I think, especially when crises involve animals. It's a reflex.

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Going the Wrong Way

Richard C. Thompson | Posted 12.14.2008 | Living

Read More: Animals, East Hampton, Abandoned Pets, Pets, Budget Cuts, Economy, Voting, Living News
Richard C. Thompson

Whenever we go through hard economic times, more pets are abandoned. People lose their homes and can't take their pets with them.

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Owners Ditch Pets After Houses Foreclose

ABC News | Evelyn Nieves | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Foreclosures, Mortgage Crisis, Abandoned Pets, Pets, Subprime Mortgages, Human Society, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Business News

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...

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