Maybe if the city had it’s budget revised they could fund more of these facilities to care after pets instead of having 50% of it going to cops

“There’s people who can’t keep their animals, and it’s not because they were COVID puppies; it’s because of the economy,” said Sparapani. “Animals can get very expensive.”

If you don’t have your head up in the right sort of market information sources, then you aren’t seeing the WILD divergence between all the numbers that say Recession vs the ones that say Bull Market. It’s a good time to remind you that when human suffering goes up, market goes up, and vice versa. The stock market went apeshit to the moon in 2020 when everyone was having the worst year since 2008 and everything bad was happening, COVID or not.

It doesn’t really matter if the Fed was printing money in 2020, there’s always a reason, and it’s just the details. WHY was the Fed printing money? Hmm? Human suffering go up, market go up. That means that when you see the SP500 skyrocketing in summer 2023 off of, oh, the potential to replace everyone with a robot, especially the expensive people, then you should buckle up and make sure your financial hatches are secure against storms. Here comes the pain.

I’m gonna need you to go ahead and lay off the “shaking my head” type of sentiments about this article, and instead read this like tea leaves. This is a heavy recession indicator. Indigent and irresponsible people surrender animals lightly all the time, at a steady rate that is usually soaked up easily enough by shelters.

This is not that, this is a wave of normal people who have been buckling under the load of HIGH inflation for the last two years, and it’s coming down, now, but too slowly, and they are at the end of their rope. Their credit cards are maxed out, they’ve spent up all their savings, and they are starting to throw the dog into the pound like “good luck sweetie we’ll miss you” to survive. That’s what this is. Feed the dog or feed the kid, and they choose the kid, obviously. Does that sound like people with a lot of extra income to spend on the economy? Their spending is your income, remember.

Food banks have all been reporting a massive upsurge in formerly middle-class families looking for their help, and this article is in the same vein, people thought they’d never get rid of the dog and now hard times are here.

So down off your high horse, you come, and go check your financial basement for leaks. Everyone smart has been calling for a recession at the end of 2023 or the beginning of 2024, and this latest market run didn’t make fools of them. It’s almost like the Federal Reserve is going to hike interest rates until unemployment spikes, or something, and that number keeps staying low, so the Fed keeps hunting for its recession. But first, I guess the dog ends up at the pound. Can’t take that guy for a checkup without spending $250, and can’t do that anymore.