Pets For Life, a program to keep pets with their people

[Catherine]

People sometimes have to surrender their pets because they can't afford to provide for them. The Human Society of the United States has developed a program called Pets For Life.

http://www.humanesociety.org/about/depar...s_pfl.html

They choose different places to set up the program. In Corpus Christi, Texas, the group People Assisting Animal Control have been chosen for a Pets For Life program.

https://www.caller.com/story/news/local/...478581002/

This is program is a tremendous help to people who love and need their pets, but lack the resources to care for them properly. 
Instead of forcing people to give up their pets when they have a medical crisis, they are going to help them. I think this is a very progressive idea. I have never liked the idea that people have to give up their pet in order to save its life when there is an emergency. 

Lower income people need their pets too and I think the pets need to be with their people. Your pet doesn't love you because you have money. Your pet loves you because you are you. I am sure the pet feels abandoned when an owner is forced to surrender it. The pet must wonder why the person doesn't come back for them.

I hope this is an idea that can spread to other places. There is certainly a need for it.