So we’re in the middle of a housing crisis - it isn’t good. But when you take away the newspaper headlines, the influence it has on the campaign and the people who are struggling to figure out what to do - what do you really have left?
The answer is more cute and cuddly than you might think. What you have left are cats and dogs - pets left behind by their owners:
Pets “are getting dumped all over,” said Traci Jennings, president of the Humane Society of Stanislaus County in northern California. “Farmers are finding dogs dumped on their grazing grounds, while house cats are showing up in wild cat colonies.”
In one such colony in Modesto, two obviously tame cats watched alone from a distance as a group of feral cats devoured a pile of dry food Jennings offered.
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