As more families are forced from their homes, the fallout is painfully clear at animal shelters nationwide.

In Dayton, Ohio, where foreclosures are up 50 percent from last year, every shelter in the city is overrun.

Mark Kumpf, director of Dayton’s Montgomery County Animal Resource Center said the pets are suffering as a result of the foreclosure crisis, describing these animals as the “second class of victims in the national economy.”

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