Pets increasingly abandoned, surrendered due to economy
By the numbersThe number of animals surrendered, abandoned, adopted and euthanized varies from shelter to shelter. Some accept only dogs, while some euthanize only terminally ill, injured or dangerous animals.
But the past few years’ figures from People for Pets — Magic Valley Humane Society give you an idea of the trend:
Fiscal 2007 (ending Sept. 2007):
Total animals: 1,875 (excluding wild, diseased, vicious or
unadoptable cats)
Animals adopted or redeemed (returned to their owners): 65 percent
Fiscal 2008:
Total animals: 2,138
Adoption/redemption rate: 56 percent
Fiscal 2009:
Total animals: 2,184
Adoption/redemption rate: 60 percent
Fiscal 2010:
Total animals: 2,192
Adoption/redemption rate: 64 percent
What can I do?Many shelters need donations of time, pet supplies or volunteer hours. To find your local shelter, check in the phone book under “animal shelters” or call your city’s office to be connected to animal control, which can tell you where they take the animals they deal with.
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Joan Turner’s dog, Tootsie, can’t tell her new owner where she came from, or what she’s been through in the nine months since the German shepherd-Australian shepherd mix was born.
“The only thing I know is she was from Jerome. I don’t know if they picked her up and brought her in, or how she got there, but she’s a perfect dog,” said Turner, of Twin Falls, who adopted Tootsie from the People for Pets — Magic Valley Humane Society in Twin Falls on May 20.
But if Tootsie’s story is typical, she might have ended up at the shelter because of the economy. Shelter managers and volunteers around the region say the numbers of animals they are trying to find homes for has risen in the last three or four years, especially the number that owners are reluctantly having to give up.
“One thing that I do see a lot more is people surrendering their dogs because they’re moving, and the reason they’re moving is financial, out of a house and into an apartment or out of town because they lost their job,” said Dr. Patrick Jones, veterinarian and owner of Fairview Animal Hospital, which is also the dog pound for Buhl and Filer. “We haven’t seen an increase in cruelty or confiscation situations, but we have had more dogs than usual picked up (by animal control) and not claimed.
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