With more pets going to shelters, staff shortages and less adoptions, organizations are...
“A lot of people know about pet adoptions, fostering and spay and neuter, but we have done research and found information gaps in communities of immigrants,” said Mia Navedo-Williams, manager of multicultural marketing at the Best Friends Animal Society, a leading animal welfare nonprofit that works with hundreds of pet shelters and organizations nationwide.
Pet adoptions through shelters decreased by around 20 percent in the first year of the pandemic. Experts say that restrictions imposed by COVID forced shelters to reduce intake of animals as they struggled with the effects of labor shortages. Many owners who could not keep their pets instead found new homes for them with relatives and friends.“It could be the perfect storm for a shelter crisis,” said Navedo-Williams.
Sánchez worked a recent Saturday at the organization’s Kittypalooza event, where foster parents brought their cats to the shelter to promote adoptions.Lesly Castillo, the HCC student, was one of the foster parents at Kittypalooza. She said she was “heartbroken after Pulguita died” accidentally last year, but that a tweet from a friend sparked her curiosity. It led her to BARC's Instagram account, and she wanted to know more.
BARC takes care of the vaccinations and neutering and spaying of the pets, and she received a welcome package with food and supplies when she took the kittens home. Texas ranked No. 1 in the country for shelter pet deaths and euthanasia in 2020, up from second place the previous year.Castillo said fostering the kittens from BARC was “very fulfilling.”
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