(The Center Square) – Illinois animal shelters are reporting an overwhelming number of surrendered pets this year. Dean Daubert, chief operations officer at Anderson Humane in South Elgin, said the shelter has handled 3.
A pair of pups rescued from a South Korean meat farm and later taken in by Anderson Humane, along with a dog from Florida, are ready for adoption from the South Elgin shelter.
Allaying fears that they wouldn t return this year, the locally famous Mooseheart eagles are building a new nest about 100 yards away from their old one after the dead, rotting tree that housed it had to be removed.
While the pandemic led many people to adopt pets during quarantine, Kane County shelters are overwhelmed as many people are now surrendering their animals.