'We are completely overloaded': Local animal shelters seeing an uptick in pet returns
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, many pet shelters saw a massive uptick in adoptions. Now, over a year later, they're seeing the opposite.
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Updated: 8:23 PM EDT Jul 14, 2021
'We are completely overloaded': Local animal shelters seeing an uptick in pet returns
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, many pet shelters saw a massive uptick in adoptions. Now, over a year later, they're seeing the opposite.
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Updated: 8:23 PM EDT Jul 14, 2021
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THAN 16 STATES ACROSS THE U-S .. INCLUDING HERE IN GEORGI A. PANDEMIC PET RETUR. NS SOME SHELTERS ARE SEEING A STAGGERING NUMBER OF SURRENDERS RIGHT N. OW OUR BROOKE BUTLER CHECKED OUT MORE FROM A LOCAL ANIMAL RESCU E. 00 FOR THE LAST TWO MONTHS WE'VE BEEN INUNDATED WITH OWNER SURRENDER REQUESTS :04 COASTAL PET RESCUE IN SAVANNAH - IS OVERWHELMED WITH ANIMALS. 1:29 WE E ARCOMPLETELY OVERLOADED MOST OF O UR FOSTER HOMES ARE DOUBLED UP RIGHT NOW 1:32 WE HAVE ERY VE ROOM IN OUR SHELTER IS COMPLETELY FULL 1:36 THIS IS A COMMON THEME ACROSS PET SHELTERS RIGHT NOW. 5:45 ALLF OTHE LOCAL SHELTERS ARE FULL WE'RE TOLD SOME ARE RETURNING THEIR PETS DUE TO FINANCIA- ORL COMPLICATED LIVING SITUATIONS. :56 WE'RE GETTING A LOOTF O PEOPLE WHO WERE HAVING TO MOVE BECAUSE THEY LOST THEIR JOBS HERE OR THEY COULD NO LONGER AFFO RD THEIR RENT OR WHERE THEY WERE LIVING SO THEY HAD TO MOVE INTO SOMEBODY 1:03 OTHERS - ARE RETURNI NG THEIR PETS - MORE BECAUSE OF BEHAVORIAL ISSUES. 5:58 PEOPLE WERE HOME AND HAD A LOT OF TIME AND NOW PEOPLE HAVE GONE BACK TO WORK AND MAYBE THART PET IS EXPERIENCING SEPARATION ANXIETY THERE COULD BE A MULTITIUDE OF REASONS WHY THEY ARE RETURNING THAT PET 6:12 AND THOSE ARE THIS NG THAT CAN BE WORKED THROUGH 6:14 FOR THOSE WHO ARE RETUING RN A PET DUE TO BEHAVIORAL ISSUES - ONE LOVE ANIMAL RESCUE URGES YOU TO CONSIR DE TRYING OUT A TRAINOR FIRST. 7:04 IF ITS FOR BEHAVIORAL REASONS REACH OUT TO A BEHAVIORAL TRAINOR BECAUSE THEYTRE A LOT MORE AFFORDABLE THEN YOU CAN IMAGINE 7:13 NUMBER TWO IF THE DOG IS TEARING UP THINGS THEYRE A LOT LESS EXPENSIVE THAN A TORN UP PIECE OF FURNITURE 7:19 FOR EVERYONE ELSE - IF YOU JUST WANT TO HELP OUT - BOTH RESCUES ENCOURAGE YOU TO CONSIDER FOSTERG. IN 8:05 ITS SUCH A REWARDING THING TO DO TO KNOW YOU'RE SAVING A LITTLE LIFE AND THAT YOURE ALSO ADDING TO SOMEONE ELSES LIFE ROBIN FAY WITH ONE LOVE ANIMAL RESCUE KNOWS WHAT IT LIKES TO FOSTER. AND SHE ENCOURAGES EVERYONE - TO TRY IT OUT. (???) 8:12 WHEN THEY ADOPT THIS DOG THEYRE GOING TO GE