Help for 4-legged foreclosure victims

About Us: People in Real Estate

 Monday, March 22, 2010.

Jodi Polanski, founder of Lost Our Home Pet Foundation and a former mortgage broker, plays with Boris, a rescued dog. Photo courtesy Jodi Polanski.

It's bad enough when a family loses its home. It's indescribably awful when they drive away and leave the family dog or cat behind to starve.
Yet, in the midst of the foreclosure crisis, it's nearly an everyday occurrence.
As a Phoenix-area mortgage broker who was known for her love of animals, Jodi Polanski heard about these cases all the time from the real estate agents she worked with -- the agents would enter a vacant, foreclosed home to show it to a buyer and encounter a dog trapped in the yard or a cat locked in a closet.