D.C. animal shelter hits capacity, waives some adoption fees
, which runs a database that tracks shelter and rescue activity at 500 sites across the country, documented 26,000 more pet adoptions in 2020 than in the year before — a rise of about 15 percent. In the D.C. area, animal experts said they had not seen such a demand to adopt pets since after Sept. 11, 2001, when people en masse sought pets for comfort.
Still, the humane rescue center in D.C. isn’t seeing as many animals being given up or returned as other facilities, a trend that officials attribute to their expansion of several programs of assistance in the past few years, including free food and some free — or reduced — medical care. Each case is decided based on the owners’ and pets’ needs.
This holiday season, the Humane Rescue Alliance is doing more on social media and in online community groupsto try to find them new homes. It had roughly 40 cats and 80 dogs — plus birds, mice, turtles, rabbits, snakes and guinea pigs — looking for new homes as of Friday., a 1-year-old dog who’s now 40 pounds after coming to the shelter rather skinny. He’s a sweetie, shelter caretakers said, that “likes to sniff around” and loves to be petted.
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