if you're looking for a 4 footed friend

[Fritz]

America’s animal shelters are overwhelmed.

don't drop $3k on a Frenchie.

our vet confirms that many pandemic adoptees have been going back to shelters.

[rgG]

Fritz wrote:
America’s animal shelters are overwhelmed.

don't drop $3k on a Frenchie.

our vet confirms that many pandemic adoptees have been going back to shelters.

My next door neighbor has 3 French Bulldogs. :RollingEyesSmiley5:

[Fritz]

wow! that's a serious investment in future vet bills.

[GGD]

I thought it was going to be about this story.

https://people.com/elephant-roams-street...na-8634693

[ka jowct]

It's horribly depreessing. The small local rescues I follow on IG are constantly finding friendly cats that were dumped. Some find their ways to managed colonies, where they have a chance of being rescued. but a lot of them end up dead. There is almost no affordable spay/neuter here anymore. The ASPCA mobile clinics were reduced drastically during the early stages of the pandemic, and still are not back to where they were before.

People get evicted or die or go into a nursing home/assisted living, and their pets are abandoned. Bodega cats are often not fixed, so they wander off or produce litter after litter which are given away with no concern for whether the home is good.

People who adopted dogs while isolating in 2020 with apparently no clue about how to care for the dogs when they had to go back to the office, or what it can cost to hire a dog walker, annoy the crap out of me.

[$tevie]

A lot of people on Twitter, including Keith Olbermann of whom I am not a fan to be honest, are posting photos of animals in kill shelters who are in need of being adopted. It's admirable but it's also heartbreaking. There's so many of them!

[clay]

Yup. Bugs me even more in contrast to the breeders selling high $$ pets. I know there's demand, but....

[ka jowct]

I was up at NYACC once with someone from our rescue to pick up a cat that we wanted to try to place. ACC had a VERY high kill rate at that time. A family came in with their dog and handed the dog over. I wish I had never seen it. It still breaks my heart and I haven't been able to forget it. This poor dog had maybe a 25% chance of getting adopted and was going to spend his final days in hell, waiting for his people to come back for him.

[ka jowct]

$tevie wrote:
A lot of people on Twitter, including Keith Olbermann of whom I am not a fan to be honest, are posting photos of animals in kill shelters who are in need of being adopted. It's admirable but it's also heartbreaking. There's so many of them!

William Dean French, who mostly rescues older German Shepherds, has taken a mental health break from social media. So many people were reaching out to him to rescue dogs that they had heard about, and he was having to say no. It just kills you after a while.

[mrbigstuff]

when my kids leave the house they may find that I've adopted a whole pack of dogs to make up for them.