Lancashire animal shelter concerned about lockdown puppies (Photo: Pixabay/Bleakholt Animal Shelter logo) Now we are all spending time more at home, welcoming a new dog into the home seems like a great thing to do during the pandemic. Between March and the end of December last year, the RSPCA’s Find a Pet section of the website had 39,835,657 views compared to 23,681,542 in the same period the previous year- This is a rise of 68%. The number of page views on the RSPCA’s ‘rehoming a dog’ section surged 87 per cent from 540,524 to 1,013,795 over the same period. However, animal welfare experts are concerned about these high figures, worried that it will lead to a surge in abandoned dogs once life returns to normality.