Tarek Ziad says his cat Charlene is the joy of his life.'When I first got her, her name was cow because she looks like a cow,' Ziad said.But his happiness turned into a nightmare when he came home after a long weekend to the 3-year-old cat injured while...
"When I first got her, her name was cow because she looks like a cow," Ziad said.
Charlene needed immediate surgery, but with no money left to pay for the expensive medical procedure, Ziad made the hard decision to surrender his cat to an animal shelter. Caceres-Gil says the increased number of animals in shelters today is being driven by a combination of many factors, but nationally, it is not being driven by an increase in owner surrenders to shelters.
"As they stay inside the shelter longer, it's not great for them mentally or physically, and many of them will break down," said Katy Hansen, director of marketing and communications at Animal Care Centers of NYC."They're stressed, so they're not showing well to potential adopters that come in. We went from an average length of stay of eight days pre-pandemic to now we're at 13 days.
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