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BROOKLYN WEEKLY, APRIL 5, 2020
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
From shelter in place to
sheltering pets!
Brooklynites have fostered
and adopted fourlegged
friends en masse to
keep them company while
they self-quarantine during
the ongoing coronavirus
outbreak — so much so that
the owner of one Gravesend
animal rescue has had to
turn prospective pet parents
away because they’ve run
out of furballs!
“It’s very unusual,” said
the the co-founder of Angels
for Mistreated Animals, or
AMA Animal Rescue, Anna
Khazanova. “More so ever
than before we have new fosters.”
Khazanova’s Cropsey Avenue
shelter usually has between
35 to 40 animals looking
for a home and last week
a client picked up their last
remaining pet amid the sudden
surge in demand.
She believes that many
Kings County animal lovers
have been motivated by
the pandemic to take care of
a cat or a dog, and she hopes
that some of the new foster
parents will become adopters,
known also as “foster
failures.”
“This has been the little
push they may have needed,”
she said. “We’re hoping to
get some foster failures, who
win as adopters.”
Her center still receives
calls every day and demand
has more than doubled in
the past weeks, she said.
This trend is happening
across the city as the shelter
organization Animal Care
Centers of NYC on Sunday
tweeted that more than 400
of their pets have left their
shelters either through fostering,
adoption, or via another
partnering organization.
Not only does it mean
that 431 pets are resting
comfortably in a nice home,
but ACC staff can now direct
their limited resources
to the pets that need it the
most.
Some shelters in the
Five Boroughs are seeing
an increase of as high as 10
times their usual demand,
Bloomberg reported.
One Bay Ridge grad student
has decided to foster
an adorable two-year-old
black pit bull named Huck
to take care of in the coming
months as she faces
studying and working from
home.
“I’ve always wanted a
dog, but with school and
work there wasn’t time,”
said Gabrielle Puglia. “If I’m
going to be stuck, I might
as well give someone else a
home so they’re not stuck
at home too — this one just
kind of fell into my lap.”
When Puglia went to
pick up the pooch at the Animal
Care Center’s Brooklyn
outpost in East New York
on March 21, she said that
all of the shelter’s cats and
smaller dogs were already
taken. She’s happy to have
found Huck, who she says
has been a real pal.
“He’s is the sweetest dog
ever, I’ve had dogs before and
none has been this much of a
lap dog,” Puglia said.
Huck was among the many dogs who have been fostered or adopted
during the outbreak. Photo by Gabrielle Puglia
Gabrielle Puglia and her boyfriend Frank Pesce with their fostered
pooch Huck. Courtesy of Gabrielle Puglia
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Brooklynites foster pets en masse amid COVID-19 outbreak
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