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Is Your Pet Losing His/Her Home Due To Foreclosure?
Here are some helpful tips for you and your pet before it’s too late.
Please don’t have unrealistic expectations about how you will deal with your pet once your home is gone. Thousands of pets are losing their homes and their lives because of the housing crisis. We want to help people and their pets with some simple guidelines to follow if you are one of the unfortunate people losing your home.
- Look at your options NOW- Plan ahead, so you aren’t forced to take your pet to animal control or worse. If you receive a foreclosure notice it’s very important to begin the process of where your pet will go once you are forced to move. Foreclosure doesn’t happen overnight so there should be ample time to find a home for your pet if you start looking right away. All too often we have people contact us a few days before they need to move. It’s impossible to place a pet with no time to even find a foster home.
- S/N and vetted pets are easier to place -Make sure your pet is spayed or neutered and current on vaccinations. It’s much easier to place a pet into rescue or a permanent home if they are completely vetted. There are many low cost spay/neuter programs that can fit most budgets.
- Turning your pet loose it not an option -Do not drop your pet on the side of the road thinking it’s a better option than animal control. Domesticated pets have no idea how to survive in the wild and will likely be hit by a car, killed by another animal, starve to death or die of disease. None of these options are better than animal control. There is no guarantee that your pet will not be euthanized but at least they will have food and shelter until that decision has to be made.
- Use internet resources - Use all of the internet resources available to help find your pet a new home. There are hundreds of websites available if you are willing to do a little work. For instance www.petfinder.com . Take good photos so people can see your pet at his/her best. Humane organizations and rescues will immediately ask for a photo if they are in a position to help you so be prepared and send the photo with your request. A picture is worth a thousand words!
- Look outside the state if need be – Look outside of the State for other rescue groups. If you have a purebred dog or cat there are many rescues that are breed specific in and out of Georgia. There are states that don’t have the huge issue of homeless pets that Georgia does and you may be able to transport your pet to one of those states. Be sure to ask if the rescue has a waiting list and if they do get on it.
- Be patient! – This will not happen overnight. Many rescues are overwhelmed with the number of requests received every week. We know these are trying times for everyone but if we work together we will make it through and hopefully save lives in the process!
Info compiled from resources on the web by Dawn K ForTheAnimals for http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ForeclosurePetRescue
