After the pet adoption boom during the lockdowns of 2020, at least one organisation has seen a drove of cats and dogs that were adopted out last year now coming back as surrenders.
Kate Meehan knows what it takes to rehabilitate a surrendered dog. Ten years ago she adopted Kelpie ‘Taz’ and inherited all the issues from her previous home where Ms Meehan suspects she wasn’t exercised or occupied enough.
After the pet adoption boom during the lockdowns of 2020, at least one organisation - the Petbarn foundation - has seen a drove of cats and dogs that were adopted out last year now coming back as surrenders. “To see the shelters empty, and pet ownership skyrocket. There had to be some kind of surrender, right. And it was going to be big,” says Ms Bloxsom.
“If people who do have to move out and are still in the position that they can’t pay their rent then are they going to have to surrender their animals?” Dogs who aren’t used to being left alone often started barking and being destructive, she said, and the key to rehabilitating them was to create a safe space for them through crate training and exposing them to normal routines and habits.“Having a shower and closing a door between you and the dog, for example,” she said. “I had one puppy who’d almost never been put down on the ground before, he was always carried.
“We did have one dog where both the husband and wife lost their jobs and the dogs did its cruciate ligament which is a four to five thousands dollar surgery,” she said.
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