Animal Shelters Fall on Hard Times
Adoptions and donations drop as economy forces owners to give up their pets.
Heartland Animal Shelter in Northbrook is looking for a home for Sparky, who was rescued from a shelter that euthanizes animals. He was sent there by his owner who lost her home and had no funds to board him. A Refuge for Saving the Wildlife, also in Northbrook, has been looking for a new home for Eddie the Cockatoo for a year and a half. The bird was given up by his owner whose business was crashing. At the Community Animal Rescue Effort (CARE) in Evanston, an older dog was handed over by a woman who had lost her home and was moving in with friends. The dog didn’t live long afterward. “She just died of a broken heart,” said volunteer Erin Marcus. “Those are bad days when we take in animals like that.” The details are always different, but…
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Elizabeth Manaster
7:15 am on Friday, July 15, 2011
We adopted our Akita, Alaska, from Orphans of the Storm as an older dog and he is so great! He is large and a bit scary looking since he is all black, so I feel that our house is very safe from intruders, but with us he is wonderful. He is our third dog adopted from Orphans and they have all been great. I would always adopt from a shelter. more ›