Needy families can apply for pet food stamps through donation-based program

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4. I always hear this garbage that if you can't "afford" a pet, you shouldn't have one.

The fact is the poor should have as much right to have pets as anybody else. Furthermore, many people who were once middle class have ended up falling through the cracks.

Why should they have to give up their pets? Nobody tells people they should give up their kids when they fall on hard times. Besides, there are programs out there to help the poor with low-cost veterinary services and so forth.

What I DON'T want to see is any more pets having to be put in shelters or advertised on Craigslist because people can no longer have them when they fall on hard times.