4 bonded dogs seek new home after owner and her father die of COVID-19 TODAY 3/1/2021 Jen Reeder
When four dogs Oliver, Winston, Isabelle and Izzy entered a shelter last month, their stay was supposed to be temporary.
Their owner, Jennifer Stein, had been hospitalized for COVID-19. Her father, Barry Stein, was also battling the disease caused by the new coronavirus from home while caring for her dogs but found it increasingly challenging to do both. So he called the Nassau County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in New York and asked for help.
“When I spoke to him on the phone, he just wanted to make sure that his daughter was going to get her dogs back her ‘babies,’ that’s what he called them,” Maria Mora, executive director of the Nassau County SPCA, told TODAY. “He told me that he wasn’t able to take them out anymore and it was becoming too much.”
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Four dogs lost their human family to COVID-19 and are in search of a new home.
Pets Oliver, 5, Winston, 5, Isabelle, 4, and Izzy, 6, were brought to the Nassau County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to temporarily help their owners who were affected by COVID, the organization wrote on Facebook. Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow
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The dog s owner – Jennifer Stien – was hospitalized with severe symptoms and asked her father Barry Stien to care for the dogs. Barry was also battling COVID-19, but he was doing so from home.