An animal care center in New York City is overwhelmed by those looking to adopt or foster a furry companion to ease the stress of staying at home
But by the end of March, the shelter had only a few dogs left. New Yorkers had already flooded the facility looking for pets to adopt.
“I ended up just falling in love with him,” Tsai said during a walk with Archer in Central Park. “And I adopted him two weeks after.” After the Animal Care Centers of NYC launched a social media campaign near the start of the pandemic to encourage New Yorkers to foster and adopt pets, Julia Lubbock, the shelter’s foster supervisor, said the response was “unbelievable.”
Lubbock said the response gave everybody in the shelter a lot of hope and joy at a time when people were nervous to go outside.
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