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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNewest Shortage in New York: The City Is Running Out of Dogs to Foster
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-25/newest-shortage-in-new-york-the-city-is-running-out-of-dogs?sref=vuYGislZOf all the shortages created by the coronavirus pandemic -- the toilet paper and the hand sanitizer and the bottled water -- the oddest of them all has to be dogs. Oh, and cats too.
Thats right, in the New York city area, the epicenter of the disease, there is suddenly a run on pets. At least of the adopted or fostered kind. Muddy Paws Rescue and Best Friends Animal Society are reporting shelters they work with are either all out of or almost out of cats and dogs after a surge in applications of as much as 10-fold in the past two weeks.
Ordered to shelter in place at home, and both a little bored and a lot anxious, New Yorkers apparently see the four-legged friends as way to calm frayed nerves. For the moment we definitely dont have any dogs left to match with foster volunteers, said Anna Lai, the marketing director at Muddy Paws. Which is a great problem to have.
It also helps explain why shares of Chewy Inc. are soaring right now even as the stock market overall crashes. Its up 7% this year, as customers hunker down and order online. The spike in volume has pushed delivery times to between seven and 10 days for most customers, according to the companys website.
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Newest Shortage in New York: The City Is Running Out of Dogs to Foster (Original Post)
fleur-de-lisa
Mar 2020
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StarryNite
(9,442 posts)1. This is a wonderful shortage to have!
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)2. I hope
that when this is over, the animals aren't taken back to the shelter, but are permanently adopted by the people fostering them who have become attached to them.
brewens
(13,573 posts)3. Hopefully they were doing well enough before that it wasn't a tremendous number of
pets they are talking about.