The sad tale of the pandemic’s impact on beloved pets

Animal shelters are bursting at the seams as they try to accommodate all the pets made homeless by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Though the spike in the human mortality rate has seen an increase in pets being ceded to Bay shelters, welfare employees have also noted a rise in the number of people having to give up their beloved animals because they can no longer care for them...

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