Hello Celebritys

The foreclosure discussion has hit a nerve with a number of readers here. I'm sorry to know that at least a couple of commenters have been hit hard themselves and are struggling to work things out while trying to keep their pets in their family. Oh holy stomach knots. It's a reality I can barely imagine without slipping into a low level panic.

This stark reality of the word homeless - home less - really does beg the question: How far would any of us really go to keep our pets?

"It went to hell in a handbasket," she said. "I didn't think this would happen to me. It's just something that I don't think that people think is going to happen to them, is what it amounts to. It happens very quickly, too." - Barbara Harvey, a former loan processor, the 67-year-old mother of three grown children said she never thought she'd spend her golden years sleeping in her car in a parking lot.

This CNN video report from May of last year offers a peek into Barbara's hard times and diehard dedication to her dogs. Life in a Parking Lot

Would you do what she did to keep your pets? Could you? Really?