Volunteers across America have opened their homes to foster pets as animal shelters race to adapt tosocial distancingand other efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. The numbers are both staggering and inspiring. Representatives from the nonprofit Best ...
The current COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the highly contagious respiratory pathogen SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2), has alrea
"We're finding that with these hard times right now, with shelters being overcrowded, this is really drawing people into the shelter to try and help save lives," Bissell said. "We're seeing the results across the country—what the Empty the Shelters is doing to help shelters ...
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COVID-19 pandemicFOSTER childrenANIMAL sheltersFOSTER home careWILCOXON signed-rank testCOVID-19Simple Summary: During the COVID-19 pandemic, there were widespread reports of increased public interest in adopting and providing foster care to pets in animal shelters. However, there is a need for ...
All of these are known as class-A dealers, while the brokers who acquire the animals from miscellaneous sources (like auctions and animal shelters) are identified as class-B dealers. At few instances use of the wild animals such as monkeys and birds is also followed (Baumans, 2005). In ...
(chi-square = 9.062,p = 0.003). Also, those who previously had pets were more likely to choose this as a reason than the previous non-pet owner (chi-square = 4.565,p = 0.033). There have been growing concerns about how shelters solve or exacerbate the underlying ...
Bershadker notes that so far most shelters are not seeing an increase in surrendered pets. While they’re tracking this carefully – the potential for an eviction crisis is of particular concern – it’s not a surprise to him that even when people have to cut back, caring for their ...
And finally, Covid has cost many lives, and while not every victim had owned a pet, and not every pet automatically lost its home after its human friend passed away. But according to several associations’ best guesstimates, around 3,000 to 4,000 animals did wind up in shelters or outsi...
Despite pet adoption being on the rise amid COVID-19, Israelis have shown a clear preference for smaller dogs, leaving shelters overflowing with larger dogs. (photo credit: SPCA ISRAEL) Researchers at the University of Copenhagen’s biology department and colleagues inZurichand elsewhere have found...