The economic situation facing many New Yorkers is leading them to deliver your pets to public shelters in the citywhich are crowded, with a 50 percent increase in occupancy in the first five months of this yearwhen compared to the same date in 2022.
“We are overcrowded and with overcrowding comes a lot of problems“Katy Hansen, spokeswoman for the Animal Care Center (ACC), which has three locations in the city, told the Gothamist newspaper.
She stresses that it is a stressful situation for both the animals and the shelter employees. The barking of the dogs -in cages and outside of what has been their home- has led employees to have to resort to earplugs.
Hansen noted that many of the dogs they are under 4 years old, which matches the record number of animals adopted by New Yorkers during the pandemic. also that some dogs they were found wandering the streets of the city or tied to a fence.
“People are giving up their longtime pets because their owners can’t buy food for dogs the arena stops gatosnor pay expensive medical care,” the shelter spokeswoman also said, adding that in June alone 200 people gave up their animals because they could no longer pay for their expenses or because they were being evicted from their homes.
Although they are provided with food for the animals to keep them, there are some people who are in difficult situations that leads them to give up the pet.
Before the pandemic in 2020, animals typically stayed at the shelter for less than a week before being adopted, but now they stay for 12 to 14 days as adoptions have slowed. This week ACC received 130 gatos y 134 dogs but only 32 were adopted dogs y 104 gatos.
There are so many gatos, that ACC, a network of non-profit shelters supported by the city, is no longer receiving felines at its Manhattan headquarters. The gatos they are in boxes that clutter the aisles.
Since last January 2,918 pets have been adopted but in that same seven-month period, the ACC received 7,493 gatos, dogs, guinea pigs and rabbits. For the same period last year, 2,769 were adopted and received 6,702 pets.
The ACC, which has been criticized for euthanizing some of the animals, has launched a special adoption fee campaign for gatos older and dogs great for encouraging New Yorkers to adopt.
2023-08-04 00:19:00
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