It has been a while since I have started a blog on here, but I wanted to bring attention to a huge problem arising in areas with ever increasing foreclosures. 

On the news last week the headline story brought to light a secondary fallout of people giving up their homes.  They are giving up their pets as well.  Many people are just leaving them behind or turning them loose in the neighborhood.  I was not surprised to hear that cats and dogs are finding themselves homeless.  We have seen cats waiting patiently for their owners return sitting on the doorsteps of vacant houses. We even ran across two dogs locked in a vacant home without food or water.   It breaks my heart.  (I have started carrying an inexpensive bag of pet food in the trunk of my car.)  What surprised me were the larger animals we don't see often at the animal shelters, horses, donkeys, goats, pigs.  Riverside, San Bernardino, and Los Angeles County Animal shelters are full of barnyard type animals. 

I have called some local rescue organizations to see what might be done and they have let me know that there is just no room at the Inn.  Many would like to help but just don't have the funds available.  That leaves our local animal shelter to report the abandoned pets.  

We are out in the "field" and probably see these lost family friends before anyone else.  Is there anything more we can do, other than call the shelters or carry a bag of food?