{"id":931,"date":"2009-02-25T16:12:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T22:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/petpundit.com\/?p=931"},"modified":"2009-02-25T16:12:34","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T22:12:34","slug":"one-million-pets-at-risk-of-being-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathyrosenthal.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/25\/one-million-pets-at-risk-of-being-homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"One million pets at risk of being homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One million pets could be homeless because of the economic crisis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The current U.S. financial crisis has the potential to grow into a serious animal welfare issue, warns executive vice president of ASPCA programs, Dr. Stephen Zawistowski. As households across the country are caught in the economic downturn, an estimated 500,000 to one million cats and dogs are at risk of becoming homeless.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to national financial estimates, approximately one in 171 homes in the U.S. is in danger of foreclosure due to the subprime mortgage crisis,\u201d Zawistowski observes. \u201cConsidering that approximately 63 percent of U.S. households have at least one pet, hundreds of thousands are in danger of being abandoned or relinquished to animal shelters.\u201d<\/p>\n

To avoid or ease the\u00a0heartbreak of losing\u00a0an animal companion due to economic hardship, the ASPCA\u00a0urges pet owners who are faced with foreclosure to think of alternatives ahead of time:<\/p>\n