By Chadwick Quercia NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As more and more stories of families having to give up their homes due to mortgage woes and other financial hardships make the news, one story that is not making headlines is tens of thousands of animals and pets who are being abandoned in record numbers and rescue shelters that are overwhelmed trying to save them while facing financial crisis themselves. Today, SPCAI launched a "Funding Crisis Campaign" to combat low donation rates and high surrender rates. "The sad fact is animal shelters across the United States are continuing to see very high surrender rates and this is causing a real crisis as rescue groups are trying to come up with needed funds to keep the abandoned animals from euthanasia," says Stephanie Scott of SPCA International. "During our recent 'Pawsitive Progress Summer Roadtrip', our case workers heard from shelter after shelter across America about continuously high surrender rates...