Here is a link to one article on pets being left behind due to the mortgage crisis.
Hidden victims of mortgage crisis: Pets abandoned by their owners after foreclosure
By EVELYN NIEVES
Associated Press Writer
STOCKTON, Calif. — The house was ravaged — its floors ripped, walls busted and lights smashed by owners who trashed their home before a bank foreclosed on it. Hidden in the wreckage was an abandoned member of the family: a starving pit bull…