Shelters around Alaska say they're struggling to house an influx of animals that have been surrendered by owners due to a complicated web of cost, pandemic isolation and challenges finding veterinary care.
Shelter manager Jamie Kennedy picks up Lucy in the cat room at the Mat-Su Borough Animal Care and Regulation shelter in Palmer on Tuesday.
With more than 200 cats and dogs filling kennels this week, shelter officials said more animals are coming in than getting adopted out in Mat-Su, for years one of Alaska’s fastest-growing regions. The economy is making it hard to afford pet food and services, Donnelly said. Price inflation for pet food ran at a 7% annual rate in April, according to theTwelve-year-old shelter volunteer Chamile Jeffers spends time with Piper at the Mat-Su Borough Animal Care and Regulation shelter in Palmer on Tuesday.
People say they’re giving up animals for various reasons — including because they simply have too many, Taylor said, adding that may be a result of pandemic-delayed spay and neuter surgeries. There were about 440 owner surrenders as of June in 2020 and 2021 compared to 690 this year, he said. That’s also higher than in 2019, when the shelter recorded 640 surrenders by June.
Mat-Su shelter officials hope to bring back owner surrenders soon, possibly next week, if kennels open up through adoptions.
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