Experts Available to Discuss Four-Legged Victims Of The Recession: Families Who Face Foreclosure And Unemployment Are Forced To Give Up Their Pets

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TOPIC: On a recent Early Show on CBS-TV, resident veterinarian Dr. Debbye Turner
Bell took a look at the problem of families who have been forced to give up
their pets after losing a job or a home. Shelters are struggling to keep up:
According to Petfinder.com, 84 percent of shelters and rescue groups all over
the United States are reporting pet surrenders due to the bad economy. Making
matters worse is the fact that shelters are not only running out of space but
have suffered their own financial reversals. The only "silver lining" in this
cloud is that many more of these shelter animals than usual are healthy and well
socialized, making them very adoptable. Dr. Bell commented that someone who is
having difficulty affording food and medical care for their pets can sometimes
get assistance.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/06/22/earlyshow/living/petplanet/main5103750.shtml

EXPERTS: ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified experts to comment on
this story:

DebrahSchnackenberg , American Humane Association: Schnackenberg is a veteran of
the Douglas County (Colorado) Search and Rescue (DCSAR) team as a team leader
and past member of the organization`s Board of Directors. She has multiple
certifications in the Incident Command System (ICS), as planning section chief
and in the management of land search operations, and she is completing a degree
in emergency management and planning. She is the former southern Colorado area
director for Search and Rescue Dogs of Colorado (SARDOC) and lives with, trains
and handles two search and rescue dogs of her own.

PR Contact: Heather Black
Title: Public Relations Specialist
Email: heatherb@americanhumane.org
Telephone: 720-873-6771
Expert Contact Information
Name: Debrah Schnackenberg
Title: Vice President, Animal Protection Division
Telephone: 720-873-6771

CherylLang is founder and president of Houston-based No Paws Left Behind, a
501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to bringing awareness to and finding
solutions for the growing phenomena of "foreclosure pets." Lang is responsible
for the company's growth through donations, which includes the development of
fundraising initiatives that drive awareness of the company's mission. She also
facilitates the placement of abandoned pets in foster care or No Kill shelters
and initiated a petition to change the legislation prohibiting the removal of
distressed animals from abandoned homes. Lang brings more than 25 years of
mortgage service industry experience, which runs the gamut of mortgage servicing
activities (default administration, portfolio sales/acquisitions, escrow
administration, property preservation, and repair process management) to No Paws
Left Behind. Lang has held several positions in senior management at top 25
mortgage servicers, including vice president of Sales and Acquisitions for nine
years at Tampa, Fla.-based Chase Manhattan Mortgage, where she managed more than
60 portfolios with balances totaling $62 billion and more than 80 bulk and flow
servicing sales with balances in excess of $20 billion. As the vice president of
the Mortgage Advisory Division of Miami, Fla.-based Bayview Financial Trading
Group, Lang developed a departmental MIS project plan that combined analytics
and sales tasks, enhanced internal communications, managed resources and tracked
time and expense by client. Lang received a bachelor of arts in Business
Administration from Eckerd College in Florida. She holds a Woman Business
Enterprise Certificate (WBENC), a Certified Texas Historically Under Utilized
Business (HUB) and has been a member the Better Business Bureau and Mortgage
Bankers Association (MBA) since 2002.

PR Contact: Joy Harper
Title: Account Agent
Email: joy@williammills.com
Telephone: 678 781 7208
Expert Contact Information
Name: Cheryl Lang
Title: Founder
Telephone: 281-717-0055

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