As you might have noticed, poverty has been on my mind this week. In a recent post, the Talk Poverty blog points out that poverty is one of the biggest reasons why pet families have to surrender their animals to shelters.
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Low Income Pet Resource Center in Los Angeles
Desmond Tutu has been quoted as saying, “There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.”
Downtown Dog Rescue in Los Angeles has done just that, opening a Pet Resource Center in a low income area to address the reasons why the poor surrender their dogs to shelters at such a high rate. Continue reading Low Income Pet Resource Center in Los Angeles
Saturday Survey: Pet Food Banks
I have seen a trend here in Ohio of people setting up food banks for pets because of the hard economy. Is there one near you?