When this housing crisis first began a few years ago, I kept hearing horror stories of pets being left in foreclosed homes and found either dead or close to death by realtors weeks later. Pets have taken the brunt of this bad economy.
People who lost their jobs and then their homes have no resources left for their pets that they acquired years before and expected to keep them for the pet’s entire lifespan. Most pets rescues turned them away because they were overcrowded. Then some of the rescues had to shut their doors forever due to lack of donations. Rental homes and apartments would not allow pets or if they did they added a sizable cleaning fee to the deposit that someone who just lost about everything could not afford. So abandonment seemed like the only way to handle their pet situation.
Amidst all of this, I hear on tonight’s nightly news that there is a boom in spending on dogs. Where in the creation are these people getting their information from? Certainly not from those who are in charge of animal control in this country. Although I do see ads for Cape Cod rentals pet friendly that for $1500 a week you can take your dog with you but first add at least $300 in fees. Those places are not aimed toward the middle class income families but the more wealthy among us.
There seems to such extremes with this economy right now and our pets are the victims of it.
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Don’t use a car to lead a horse home. The video news item below shows what happens when two men bought a horse and decided to tie it to the lid of their car trunk. The young stallion suffered some really bad wounds and the men were charged but will get a slap on the wrists if found guilty. Watch the video and find out more:
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If you wear leather, eat meat, wash with soap, or have a variety of boxed food products, you should be aware of how animals are treated that provide those products. None of us is completely independent of products that are in some way related to animals. A simple product such a Jello is made from pigs and the soap you use often has animal oils or lanolin (made from sheep). That being said, do you really know how livestock is treated?
Remember those commercials that state “Happy cows come from California.” Well I got news for you, cows in dairys in California do not have access to open fields. They are kept in a feed lot type of area that is often surrounded by fields. Those fields are grown to produce hay which is dried, baled and stored for the cows to eat later. Cow fair better in Oregon and other surrounding states that have ample rain for their cow pastures.
Most people are aware of where their eggs come from. After that e-coli outbreak a few months back, we were all subjected to images of chickens in very small cages in darkened barns. But do you know how chickens are killed for the dinning table? There are machines that the chickens are processed through. They are hung by their feet on a conveyor system and it takes them through a machine that kills them with very hot steam. The same machine removes their feathers. So one end you see a live chicken go in and the other end a dead, cleaned of feathers and hanging upside down bird comes out. The horror the birds must go through in that contraption.
Now if you really want to know more about this gruesome but necessary subject and are not afraid of the truth then I suggest you get a copy of the DVD called Food Inc. It was made in 2009 and details most of how animals are treated in the food industry. It also covers how the FDA is not protecting the public like it should from health related problems. If you cannot find that DVD on sale anywhere, see if you can rent it or catch it on the Discovery Channel, PBS or one of those documentary channels.
Finding out how animals are treated by industries will be a real eye opener for many of you.
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