Texas Foreclosure Causes Dog To Lose Home

Posted in Foreclosure Homes, September 19th, 2008 |

Ruby is just one of the many dogs that has been abandoned because her owners have lost their houses to foreclosure. This corgi mix dog named Ruby is seven years old. She is being taken care of by Operation Kindness. Most of those that had found temporary lodgings under Operation Kindness have been adopted. But Ruby continues to remain in a state of limbo. Foreclosures had a cruel hand in Ruby’s fate – and for no fault of the animal.

In Dallas foreclosure numbers have been rising and so too incidents of abandoned pets. Each day the situation is worsening causing all round concern.

Ruby is a beautiful sleek brown critter that was lucky enough to find a place in The Dallas Morning News. Sherwin Daryani of Operation Kindness that since then many have made inquiries about Ruby. A lady from West Fort Worth showed special interest but nobody has since taken her to their homes.

On an average Operation Kindness accepts about 18 animals at the end of each week. 26 pets have found adopted homes, including some who have been with the shelter for nearly 6 months. Daryani is hopeful that something will materialize for Ruby since more people have been knocking and asking.

Operation Shelter is the address for all pets that are forsaken by their owners. Foreclosure victims who did not have homes of their own to stay in had surrendered about one fourth of those in the shelter. The staff of Operation Kindness notes that since the onset of the foreclosure crisis more pets are being left behind.

Another public shelter for stray animals is Dallas Animal Services. Tyron McGill is its manager. He says that owners reeling under the foreclosure attack leave each day one or two pets to fend for themselves. There are many pets that are not even taken to the shelters but left either chained in empty houses or in the streets. Although the figure of abandoned foreclosure pets has increased the number of those wanting to adopt have gone down. The general economic slump is telling on the capability of people. Officially it remains a question mark whether foreclosures are responsible for the rise in abandoned pets.

The sad story is that if the shelters become overcrowded with lost pets then the authorities will have no other alternative but to resort to mercy killing or euthanasia.