{"id":754625,"date":"2018-09-15T08:59:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T12:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=754625"},"modified":"2018-09-15T09:17:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T13:17:05","slug":"not-like-family-after-all-part-1-impoverished-venezuelans-are-abandoning-their-pets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=754625","title":{"rendered":"Not &#8216;like family&#8217; after all (Part 1): Impoverished Venezuelans are abandoning their &#8216;pets&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>People are being forced to choose their priorities, and dogs for the most part aren't one of them.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>RACHELLE KRYGIER:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;If life in Venezuela has become hard for humans, it has become even harder for many &#8216;pets&#8217;. With inflation soaring toward 1 million percent, dog food and veterinary care have spiraled out of reach for millions of people&#8230; The result, animal specialists say, has been an exploding population of abandoned dogs on the streets and rising numbers in underfunded shelters.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Although there are no reliable national figures on the phenomenon, officials from eight shelters in the capital, Caracas, said they had seen a roughly 50 percent rise in the number of pets left at their facilities this year. At the same time, pet adoptions have a dropped by as much as a third, they said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>&#8220;People are being forced to choose their priorities, and dogs for the most part aren&#8217;t one of them,&#8221; said Esmeralda Larrosa, owner of the Kauna Animal Foundation, a Caracas shelter. 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