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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