Are shelters really empty amid the coronavirus crisis? Often there are remaining animals, especially dogs, who aren't adoptable for medical or behavioral reasons, plus a steady stream of strays coming in.
in California, which also celebrated a temporary clear-out in one of its four shelters in early April.
"That's a pretty insane figure – we don’t get that kind of math in a regular year," Welsh says."But the population is always changing daily. Our call volume is down because people are home and their dogs are not getting out, but we are always going to have animals in our shelters."Jennifer Bilodeau of Cornelius, N.C., slipped into thein nearby Mooresville this month just before the state's"stay-at-home" order, with an eye to adopt another cat.
At Miami-Dade Animal Services, which takes care of up to 30,000 animals a year, director Alex Munoz says the population is way down, even though the shelter continues to take in animals. Meanwhile, he says, the foster rate surged between mid-March and mid-April. "Last year we had 62 dog fosters and we had 224 during the same period this year.""One of the concerns is animals currently in foster care being returned to shelters when their caregivers go back to work," says Jim Tedford, head of the national Association for Animal Welfare Advancement. "There is concern that shelter intakes will skyrocket after the pandemic.
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