An excerpt from the article:
Ms. Jones has been scouring the West Los Angeles rental market to find a house that the family could rent for the next eight months, or longer. On Friday morning, she noticed something disturbing on the rents of at least three of the properties she had been tracking: 15 to 20 percent increases overnight.
The sudden surge in rental costs took Ms. Jones by surprise, but aligned with what she has noticed since wildfires started to tear through the Los Angeles area on Tuesday. Ms. Jones was touring a rental house in Beverly Hills with her client on Thursday when the listing agent raised the monthly cost by $3,000 — on the spot. Agents and landlords are aware that some displaced Angelenos might be willing to pay given the circumstance.
“People are so panicked and desperate to get into a house right now that they’re just throwing money into the wind,” Ms. Jones said. “People taking advantage of this. It’s horrendous.”
And now, totally unrelated to this, the definition of “parasitism”:
Association between two different organisms wherein one benefits at the expense of the other.
How about we just hope the pets can be rehomed because they didn’t ask for asshole owners and don’t deserve to be punished.
Here’s the thing though…being an asshole doesn’t affect pets. Pets have no concepts of rent, or money, or social class. Hell, even HITLER had a cat and a dog. I’m sure that dog loved hitler. And you can’t blame the dog. The dog has no idea that the person he lives with signed paperwork to establish concentration camps.
The dog just knows he comes home, gives him treats, and then he, the dog, and ava braun all lay down by the fireplace, and watch netflix.
And so these dogs today, they’re just the same. Living with assholes, and clueless. Just as it always has been.
We only know they are terrible, greedy, and lazy people. There ain’t enough to say they aren’t wonderful animal caretakers that provide for their furry friends in excess of the reasonable base level.