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Mother, son, their dogs forced to live in SUV after losing job during pandemic
Read full article: Mother, son, their dogs forced to live in SUV after losing job during pandemicHOUSTON โ Maria Baez is a Houston area mother desperately trying to hold it together for her son, herself and their two dogs. Holding it together in the face of losing her job during the pandemic and having to live for the past seven months in their SUV seeking free meals, gas money and other help from strangers. Mariaโs 16-year-old son recently started online learning and logging on for classes from parking lots during the day. โIt was really difficult because itโs really difficult to be cooking all the food, preparing everything, then go to sell on the streets.โWhatโs been extremely difficult is not being able to part with their dogs Sugar and Bobby. Homeless shelters wonโt allow them and animal shelters say Maria would have to surrender the dogs permanently.