Pet adoptions surge during coronavirus lockdown - is this really good?

Interesting. The shelters here were shut down to prevent this temporary craving for pets. The volunteer groups also closed down their placements. I'd started looking for a new rescue in the new year and can't go any further right now. Since we hadn't completed an assessment, we can't even act as fosters.

I can see fostering - and I think this would be a good alternative - the last puppy we got was from an organization that the doggies are all in foster homes before they go to their fur-ever home.

That way the expectation is someone that is home temporary doing this crisis could have a pup, but with the knowledge this dog could leave at any time to go to his fur-ever home.

Too bad you cannot help in fostering. Since my mom has (and this was before the covid) starting talking about maybe getting a dog - we recently found out how much she like our shih tzu as she told us those dogs are supposed to be good with seniors. We have been on the look out for a young shih tzu to adopt - not a puppy but one not too old for her.

We did notice many are still allowing adoptions but on an appointment basis only.

Did not realize the reason we may be having difficulty finding one is because of the surge in adoptions.

To me the hell with the shelters as there are in most places loving animals wondering around homeless that you could take to your vet to be check out and then adopted

Let see in my family we have two dogs and four cats that never saw the inside of a pound.

One dog was found in the middle of the road as a puppy that we name highway an the other I took home after finding my friend had pass away in his home with his dog protecting his body.

PS your vet if you have one could likely know of a dog or a cat that need a home also.

The four cats had move in over the years of their own free will with the last kitten asking for shelter from my girlfriend in a pouring rain storm at the mail room.

1. In normal times, 56% of dogs and 70% of cats in shelters end up being euthanized. This surge is most likely better for the pets involved even if a lot of these adoptions don't work out.

2. I suspect that the vast majority of these adoptions will work out. The pandemic is going to last several months at least. That is a lot of time to develop an attachment to a pet.

3. The real benefit to these adoptions is to human beings. Caring for a pet can be great for people are suffering with worry, stress and isolation. That an animal also gains a loving home could be considered a side benefit.

any way we get pets that are at risk is good. Pound of found, its all good. My favorite cat, Lucky we saved fom a building we were imploding. I hve no dalings with the implsion guys (they were subcontractors). I just visited the site as they prepped it. We discovered this little black cat all pushed up against a steel lip around a base of an elevator shaft. e set up a line of guys and picked her up and handed her off to the next guy. I claimed her and she snuggled up on my lap as I drove home om Philly. She9and then I) were covered with flease so I took her into the shower with me and really washed her down before I washed myself with insecticide soap. Another cat we got at a pound in calais Maine. It was a Maine coon kitten.

My border collies and the komondoor were not pen dogs but our beagle, Clem was a feral pup and it took weeks to calm him down and by the end of his orst yer he was the npolean of the barnyrd.
So, its all good. However weve save some creatures life or how we obtained em, is just another story of their hopefully, long lives as companions. I recently got two donkeys <Bonnie and Clyde. These guys were year apart sister and brother. Same mom , different pop. They were the remains of a prepper style marriage that broke up after the female put a restraining order on her estranged husband. She wanted to get rid of the donkies as they were pretty battered up and you could see that they were scared of their own shadows. Its been about 3 months and these two guys follow me and Mrs F all around the fields and they love to get ther ears scritched(ya never pet a hoofied animal on the top of their head as it unleashes a negative response cause they mostly dont like that.

They were kind of emacited an had wounds that were a bit festery . I had an Amish kid make a joint stall out of wood frame and 2X6" poplar knee wall nd a steel pole gate and stall top. Its just right so they can see out. I usually leve em out during the day and Mrs F has taken to let them walk around the yard and garden. Apparently they avoid eating hostas or cruciform plants (like mustard or cress or cabbage -like stuff. I think the guy at their last place was a gardener and liked to beat the little guys.
SO they do munch some of the low hanging tree branches of maples and crabapples.


Ill take some pix and see whether my phone will let me share their pictures.

I remembering flying to visit my folks one year during college vacation an they at the time was sharing a little rescue female dog who hated all males due to being mistreated by some male asshole.

My poor father could hardly go near her himself an as soon as I had walk in the door she went wild growling an trying to reach me with my father holding on to her lease.

Having been told of her history I got down on the floor and told my father to let her free as if she would bit me she would bit me.

She charge me but all at once she put on the brakes on an slowly came to me an we spend the next hour loving each other up with me ignoring my parents who I had flown over a thousand miles to see.

My father was mean but truthful when he stated that it was too bad that I did not have that level of charm when it came to human females. <grin>

When I met The Girl almost twenty years ago, she had one dog, a rescue. My last dog (long departed by then) had been a rescue. A few years later, The Girl got another dog, a rescue. That was Cleo. Cleo died on the fifth of April, 2013. A few months later, we got Bella. Bella died just before Hallowe'en, 2018, about a year and a half ago. Mr. Bailey lived on long enough to teach Bella to be a dog. (She was a rescue from a puppy mill, and had never learned to be a dog.) When Cleo died, we put her in a dog bed, covered with a towel, and put that on the end of the sofa by the front door. The next day, The Girl took her remains to the vet for cremation. Mr. Bailey sniffed at the dog bed, and gave us quizzical looks. For the rest of his life (almost two more years), unless he was eating or out on a walk, he laid in front of the front door. I believe he was waiting for his friend to come back home. When we first got Bella, she would lay there with him--he was probably the first dog friend she had ever had.

When you adopt a dog, you have to accept that they will die before you do. If you think the dog might outlive you, you have no business taking them in.

Give me a break no one can predict how long they are going to live in fact my one dog spend days locked in with his last dead human an I took him in after finding the man dead body an given my current medical condition and the damn virus I can not promised I will outlive the little guy either.

By your way of thinking I should had allow the police to take him to the pound even knowing that he would almost surely had been put to death instead of giving him already many years of life.

thats not what h said and you know it.
A PET is a contract that you enter knowingly that "We accept being owned by a life briefer than our own" and wed have it no other way

No cop outs or excuses or "by your way of thinkings..." You seem to love to get into arguments that have no basis in even being considered. ID just ignore your comments as being kinda like some ole coot in the bar who just likes to stir the pot and argues any side whether right or wrong.
Just know it that, thats how you come off to me, and I get into some relly silly arguments that I should walk away from.
Im walking away so plase dont respond cause Ive already said your original argument is a bit ridiculous.

LOL no one who have a good chance such as myself to not to outlive a pet should adopted that pet is what was said!!!!!!!!!

One dog got adopted by myself due to the death of his last human my friend and the other dog got adopted when as a puppy he was found in the middle of a damn highway that is why he is name highway.

At a guess the odds are only roughly 50 50 that I will outlive both these dogs.

Thats the point. YOU didnt stop from taking the dog because YOU were gonna die first, did you??. Neither do we all NOT adopt pets because THEY will probably die first. You seem to ignore the entire line of logic there.

Farmerman the above post is clear as it can be an it what I was addressing.

My two dogs might outlive me therefore I had no business taking either of them in an we are not even talking about the young cat now press against me who ask to be taken in during a very hard rain storm.

I am pretty sure my children are going to outlive me (at least I hope so).

The idea seems to be the old people, and people who are very sick, shouldn't get pets. I disagree on the grounds that people are more important than animals.

e right. I guess I skipped over that last line. OK OK, Im with you. and it seems we do agree on this.

have you made arrangements in your will for care of these animals should you predecease them?

Since I have a partner that is younger then me that is no problem at all nothing need to be written down.

Thanks Farmerman

as that doesn't guarantee anything, I recommend you make plans for any pets in your care

and you could have just said no, as that was the answer to my question