Families love their pets and will only abandon them as a last resort.  Foreclosure has forced many families to leave their pets behind.  Some drop them off at the animal shelter.  Others either turn their pets out to fiend for themselves or leave them inside with food and water.  Either approach has its good and bad points.  Pets left to a shelter at least have little to suffer from and a chance for a new home.  Those cast out suffer from the elements or other predators.  Disease and injuries will create a horrible fate for the once loved pets. Pets are ill equipped to survive in an urban setting.

If you can afford to make a donation to a overburdened shelter please do so.  Save a pet from suffering or euthanization.