PET PEEVED
Animal shelters seeing drop in
BY KIRSTYN BRENDLEN
Four-legged furry friends
found companions en masse
during the COVID-19 outbreak,
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COURIER L 4 IFE, SEPTEMBER 3-9, 2021
as Brooklynites
fl ocked to shelters to fi nd a
pandemic pet — leading to
one-in-fi ve American households
adopting a cat or dog
between March 2020 and May
2021.
Now, however, with many
people returning to offi ces,
shelters are once-more having
trouble fi nding homes for
their animals.
A rush to adopt
In November 2020, Jahnay
Roberts brought home a blackand
white pitbull mix named
Apollo from the Brooklyn
branch of Animal Care Centers
NYC.
She’d wanted a canine of
her own since the loss of her
family dog while she was
in college, but the time was
never right — taking care of
a dog is expensive, especially
while paying Brooklyn rent,
and many apartments don’t
even allow dogs, especially if
(Clockwise from left) Jogger Max, T-Bone, and Wiggles are all available
for adoption. NYCACC
they’re on the bigger side.
Finding Apollo was the
“perfect storm,” Roberts said.
She’d found a new, higher-paying
job after being furloughed,
and her apartment building,
which had previously only allowed
dogs on certain fl oors,
tossed the rule.
“I follow Brooklyn ACC on
Instagram, I used to volunteer
at the Manhattan ACC
a couple years ago,” she said.
“So when I saw Apollo on Instagram,
I was like, ‘Oh, he’s
cute, he’s perfect.’ I saw him
and immediately signed up
for foster to adopt, which was
a total lie, I never intended to
truly foster him.”
It turned out Roberts was
fourth in line to adopt Apollo,
so chances seemed slim — but,
somehow, the stars aligned
and he’d arrived in her Bedford
Stuyvasent apartment by
the following week, and was
offi cially hers by the end of
the month.
“I had people around, like
a very small group of friends,
so I wasn’t necessarily alone,”
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