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Economic Downturn Means More Former Pets at Animal Shelters
Produced by City Room on Friday, May 30, 2008
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The number of former-household pets at local animal shelters is rising. Pounds used to be the place for strays and problem animals. But that's changing with the economic downturn. Rochelle Michalek heads Paws Chicago. The shelter works with Chicago's Animal Care and Control.
MICHALEK: What we're pulling into our program from Animal Care and Control are dogs that look like they've had homes. They're well cared for. They're groomed. They're poodles, they're Labradors. In a lot of cases they are already micro-chipped and the owners do not claim them when contacted.
Michalek says the shelter also works with people who need short-term help caring for animals after they've been evicted from their homes. Several other area animal shelters report an increase in surrendered and abandoned pets.
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