Dear Hampshire County pet owners: I am Ramona Sirois, 10 years old, and I want to talk to you about an issue in our community and worldwide: animal abandonment. You can help prevent it! Animal abandonment is when a pet owner stops caring for an outdoor pet or releases an indoor pet into the wild. The owner does this because they cannot care for the pet, do not want them, or think the pet will be better off in the wild. This is a problem for the pets and the habitat they are released into.
