“Those aren’t things that would not allow us to find them a forever home, but they are things that are a little more specific, need-wise, when it comes to the environment they are going to be staying in. “Ideally, we’d like to have a big group of fosters who have no other pets because we do get animals in who would be good fits for foster but don’t necessarily do really well with cats or dogs, sometimes they can have some resource guarding issues,” Hollinshead said. Moving out of the pandemic and into more normal circumstances, the shelter hopes to continue its foster program. They’re less anxious, more relaxed and they can receive around-the-clock care from their foster families.” CLINIC Mon-Fri: 9 am to 7 pm (Surgery drop-off 8 am) Sat-Sun: 9 am to 4 pm Call (734) 662-4365 for appointment please, no walk-ins. “That foster program allows us to take really good care of those pets because they’re not in the shelter setting, they’re in a home setting. Please click the icon for further information on the animal OR contact us via email/phone (/ (616) 453-8900). “It also really helps any animals that are sick or injured or recovering from surgery,” she added. What we look at is the quality of life of the animal whether that be. Serving our community on the Eastern Shore and beyond to rescue, rehabilitate and rehome animals in need, The Animal Care Shelter for Kent County strives to inspire compassion and responsibility, cultivated through education, advocacy and affordable services. This also provides a “wealth of information about their behavior (and) their temperament,” Hollinshead said. At the Kent County Animal Shelter, euthanasia is not an option for long-term pets if they are thriving, Hughesian said. With foster families, the animals get more one-on-one care and an environment that allows them to relax more. Hollinshead said Kent County’s animal-focused nature has limited the problem here. It’s a bit of an anomaly: Many shelters across the country are seeing a high return rate. In the past year, Hollinshead said the shelter saw a return rate of about 4% to 8% and it is continuing to stay low as the intensity of the pandemic eases. To the shelter’s surprise, the return rate for adopted animals has been low. “So we braced ourselves just because it was really an event that we had never experienced before,” she said. Domesticated animals (cats, dogs, livestock) cannot be housed with wildlife. The increase in adoptions and the uncertainty of the pandemic’s length led the shelter to prepare for what the adoptions looked like a year or two later, Hollinshead said. Kent County Animal Shelter is NOT licensed to work with wildlife. It was really nice,” Angela Hollinshead, Kent County Animal Shelter division director, said. “We saw a lot of residents working from home (at the start of the pandemic), so we had an increase in adoptions. (WOOD) - Two years into the pandemic, the rush to adopt a pet has slowed and there hasn’t been much rush to return “pandemic pets” - at least in Kent County.
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