In tough times, people showed best selves with animals
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By Marcy Eckhardt
La Plata County Humane Society
2020 will forever be remembered as the Year of COVID-19, but for those of us in animal welfare, it will always be synonymous with the year people showed their best selves. When animal shelters, rescues and adoption agencies became recipients of the best in people rather than just cleaning up from the worst. It is the year that saw fewer strays, more adoptions and donations and more human concern than ever before.