The COVID-19 pandemic is still having a deadly effect on the pet population. The number of unwanted animals is straining San Francisco’s shelter capacity to the breaking point, sometimes with tragic results.
Just about every animal shelter in the state is jammed these days and it all points back to the pandemic when shelters were empty and it was hard to find any animal to adopt, as people tried to cope with COVID isolation.
But also at that time, spaying and neutering were suspended or drastically reduced. And now those generations of puppies and kittens are filling the shelters…