The Voice - Student Newspaper

Animals suffer with the economic slump

By Alecia Ranere
Reporter, The VOICE

Due to the increasing number of homes being foreclosed, many families find themselves in a position of having to relocate and compact their belongings. This means many families have to sell their valubales. While, other things are just being left behind, such as pets.

This has become an increasingly huge problem.

First of all, many people think that leaving an animal on the street is better than bringing them to a shelter, because they don't want their pets to be put to sleep. This is false.

According to Kimberly Seailes, marketing and communications coordinator at the Arizona Humane Society, "We don't euthanize animals because we run out of space, and we will place an animal in a temporary foster home if it is not ready to be adopted."

These animals didn't ask to be born; they were bred, and they didn't ask to be taken into a family only to be abandoned when times get tough."

It is the responsibility of the owner to find a good home or work twice as hard to take care of the pet they bought.

These animals should be viewed as your children. They are a big responsibility, sometimes an inconvenience, but you love them and would never abandon them.

Let your child roam the streets and survive on its own, or put them up for adoption after raising them.

According to Kimberly Seailes, "There has been a 90 percent increase in animals being brought in compared to last year's statistics."

Although the amount of animals abandoned are becoming stable, for future notice, if you can't take care of a pet, don't own one!