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Why animal shelters are facing a new crisis

When Baloo, a big white rabbit, and his brother Elliott were surrendered to an animal shelter outside Montreal, Canada, the countdown started.

Strapped for money and overcrowded, the shelter put the word out to rescue organizations that the rabbits would be euthanized in three days unless someone stepped up to take them. The shelter had so many rabbits, according to Haviva Porter, who runs Rabbit Rescue Inc., a Toronto-based nonprofit, that it wasn’t even listing them for public adoption.

“This has been the worst year ever in 20 years of rescue,” Porter says.

Animal rescuers across the United States and Canada echo her experience. “It’s been a sea change the last few months,” says Joe Labiola, director of PAWS Atlanta animal shelter. He says the shelter is getting by—but only just.

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Predicted pandemic pet crisis mainly sidestepped Bay Area

Rescue teams feared there could possibly be a reckoning when California went into a COVID lock-down and folks sought companionship by adopting pets. A working day may possibly arrive when individuals, who had been no lengthier cooped up at household, might find that adopting Fido may possibly not have been the finest final decision.

Here’s cause for careful optimism: That working day has nevertheless to get there. So considerably, men and women are maintaining their pandemic animals.

The Peninsula Humane Society and SPCA, as nicely as Tony La Russa’s Animal Rescue Basis, Berkeley Humane and East Bay SPCA, are seeing decrease than typical pet returns.

Allison Lindquist, president and CEO of East Bay SPCA, states rescue groups had been bracing for the easing of COVID restrictions, when pet house owners may start venturing again to workplaces and traveling when much more. A tsunami of returned pets was feared, but so

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