NationalLoveYourPetDay: Animal shelters have been overwhelmed with adoption applications during the coronavirus pandemic. | mdoukmas ReaderArchives (2020)
in Chicago, but not homeless pets. In the days before Governor J.B. Pritzker issued his stay-at-home order and in the weeks since, local animal shelters have been inundated with demand to foster and adopt dogs, cats, rabbits, lizards, roosters, and every other available critter. The number of available pets has dwindled to historic lows even as animal shelters have continued to take in new animals.
Since the shelter-in-place order, Smith has had to lay off three part-time staffers in her 30-worker organization and restructure operations to handle the unprecedented volume of applications to adopt cats and dogs. Most of the shelter’s animals are rescues from Alabama that are brought to Chicago once a week.on Saturday,” Smith explains. “For every 20 dogs we post we’ll get about 115 applications. And then on Sunday we review applications. Monday we do a phone interview.
Larger shelters are experiencing a similar influx of interest in fostering pets temporarily as well as permanent adoptions. “We were able to place hundreds of animals in foster homes prior to the shelter-in-place order,” says Julia Poukatch, a spokeswoman for, which has also created a virtual adoption process and only allows scheduled in-person meetings with animals now. “Last I heard we had 6,000 people who were interested in becoming foster parents.
. Like its smaller counterparts, however, PAWS has seen a decline in financial donations, with fundraising down by 40 percent in March. Poukatch says the organization is concerned about its long-term financial stability.
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