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Animal charities and sussex vets have noticed that the Credit crunch is now taking our tolls to on our fluffy friends.

Shelters are seeing a disturbing rise in the amount of pets that are being dropped into clinics, cats and dogs in particular. During this time of economic crises, where buisnesses are collapsing and going under left, right and centre and making people redundant, our animal companions seem to be hit as well, as owners just can continue to cope with thier own bills of rent and then their pets food, veternary and insurance bills. Animals are either being dropped off at animal shelters or taken a distance away from the family home and dropped in the middle of no-where, left to fend for themselves.

So why has this happened to Fluffy and fido? Spare a thought for all those animals who were bought as xams presents0 more so this year. Families that could afford that new puppy suddenly cant due to redundancy, and rover's looking at the chop. People are also forced to downgrade and move to smaller accomidations, which dont allow pets to the dismay of the owner.

Can the animal hospitals cope with this sudden influx of casualties?

Alot of animal charities and re-homing centres are close to full, now unfortunetly only taking in the most severe of emergency cases. With people being more stingy with their belts charities and shelters in general are recieving less money as 'charity begins at home'.

Though on the upside for our furry pals, January saw some charities reporting that January saw a rise in the number of people ADOPTING from animal shelters, but most shelters are still seeing more animals coming in then going out to a loving home.