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An onrush of adopters brought home way more than fuzzy little serotonin machines.
By
Zoe Sayler
5/24/2021 at 9:45am
Before I adopted my cat, Telford, a former feral with two different colored eyes, Iâd gotten into a bad habit of rolling out of bed mere minutes before starting work 10 steps away. Nowâalthough one big paw on the delete key did force me to retype this sentence several timesâthe simple act of feeding him breakfast has imbued my days with a sense of purpose.
Iâm not alone. âPandemic petsâ are a whole thing. A survey by Seattle-based canine-care app Rover shows almost half of its respondents got their dogs between March 2020 and January 2021 (some even went so far as to give their unsuspecting new family members pandemic-themed names, like Covi, Corona, and Dr. Fauci, according to a peek at Roverâs user database). The vast majority say they brought home a four-legged friend for emotional support, or because they needed something p