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The COVID-19 pandemic could have been heartbreaking for pet owners who lost their jobs or had their hours cut so they could no longer afford to care for their cats and dogs.
But a system of social services for keeping pets with their people food banks, low-cost veterinary care, vouchers for apartment pet deposits has become what advocates hope will be a model for the post-pandemic future of animal shelters.
That is an upshot from a 2020 survey of shelters statewide by the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine.
“The hope is that these progressive changes that seek to help families keep their pets and prevent the need to institutionalize them will be sticky and persist past the pandemic,” said Dr. Julie Levy, professor of shelter medicine. “There is a whole new reimagining of sheltering that has given rise to a new organization Human Animal Support Services.”