Homeless pets we never hear about.

With the downturn in our economy here in America, we hear more and more often about families living in "Tent Cities" across the nation. People lose their job, can't make house payments, and soon the family has no place to live.
Some of these people have relatives who take them in, some live in the homeless shelters, and some end up in the nearest tent city.

As people are leaving their homes in such large quantities; what happens to their pets ?? Some are taken along with the owners; but many of the animals are simply abandoned and left to wander around the neighborhood, searching for food and their lost family.
One place where this has become an epidemic is the city of Detroit; which has between 20,000 and 50,000 homeless dogs wandering through the city. They can be seen on streets, the freeway, and lying dead along the road, wherever you look.
Many have become wild, and now roam the streets in packs, attacking anything they can find to eat for food.
Detroit is struggling to take care of far more urgent responsibilities; so the dogs are pretty much just left to roam.
One has to ask, where are all the animal rescue groups, and why aren't they making this known and trying to help ??

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