Predicted pandemic pet crisis largely sidestepped Bay Spot
Rescue teams feared there may be a reckoning when California went into a COVID lock-down and folks sought companionship by adopting animals. A working day could possibly occur when individuals, who ended up no longer cooped up at household, might learn that adopting Fido might not have been the very best final decision.
Here’s induce for cautious optimism: That working day has yet to arrive. So far, people are retaining their pandemic pets.
The Peninsula Humane Society and SPCA, as perfectly as Tony La Russa’s Animal Rescue Foundation, Berkeley Humane and East Bay SPCA, are viewing decreased than common pet returns.
Allison Lindquist, president and CEO of East Bay SPCA, claims rescue groups experienced been bracing for the easing of COVID restrictions, when pet entrepreneurs may possibly get started venturing again to workplaces and traveling once additional. A tsunami of returned animals was feared, but so far, there has been