"Three MSPCA shelters scheduled to close; Leaves less room for abandoned pets" by Brian R. Ballou, Globe Staff | February 7, 2009
BROCKTON - It was almost business as usual yesterday at the city's largest animal shelter, as the staff went about its daily routine of feeding and caring for the 134 animals housed here while prospective pet owners stuck fingers through cages and made baby talk to dogs, cats, and rabbits.
Come September, this shelter and two others run by the nonprofit Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will close their doors, the latest victims of a declining stock market that drained the association's endowment of $11 million, about a quarter of its value....
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The shelters are scheduled to close as more pets are being abandoned or surrendered by owners no longer able to care for them due to foreclosures or other financial problems....
The organization will close its Springfield facility by the end of next month and another on Martha's Vineyard by May 1, leading to the elimination of 27 more jobs, including 11 in Brockton. All three shelters cared for about 11,000 animals in 2008, Adams said.
The depletion of the endowment will also result in the loss of 19 administrative jobs in Boston, as well as several programs, including one that cares for the pets of people incapacitated by HIV or AIDS....
But we got TRILLIONS for WARS and BANKS!!!
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