Pets Can Become Divorce Casualties

The Las Vegas Review Journal has highlighted a usually unforgotten facet of the divorce experience, the pets.

As unwitting victims of their owners’ marital difficulties, Sam and Sophia aren’t alone. Each week, Southern Nevada shelters and animal rescue organizations receive dogs, cats and pets of every sort who, by virtue of their owners’ impending marital breakups, lose their homes, too.

Granted, it doesn’t usually come to this for the pets of divorcing couples. However, Duke said divorce is the sixth most-common reason – after foreclosures, the death of pet owners and problems stemming from financial reversals and hardships – that pet owners voluntarily surrender their pets to the Nevada SPCA shelter.

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