“The increase in surrenders that we’re finding are from family-owned pets. They’ve owned these pets for years. They’re in a financial situation that they can’t get out of.”
Renters aren’t the only ones frantically searching for homes in New York City — pets are falling victim to the city’s housing wars, too.
— Katy Hansen, the director of marketing and communications In the first half of 2022, Hansen said, the number of owners surrendering their pets was up 25% compared to the same time last year. What’s more, people aren’t adopting as much, likely because they’re nervous about the cost, she added. With inflation at a 40-year high, it’s the most “consistently packed” year the organization has ever seen, she said.
Monica Dangler, director of the Pima Animal Care Center, in Tucson, Ariz., is among those worried about euthanasia due to overcrowding. She told MarketWatch that while the shelter is actually taking in slightly fewer animals than it did in 2019, they’re still seeing “a lot” more dogs come in than they did before the pandemic. At the same time, people aren’t adopting as quickly.
“We’re definitely in kind of a touch-and-go space right now,” Dangler said. “As long as we can each day get out more animals than are coming in, and we can get those animals out of the pop-up crates, then we’re going to be OK.” — The Humane Society of the United States The Humane Society of the United States added in an email to MarketWatch that “while we don’t have data on the number of folks who are forced to re-home their pet because of the lack of affordable, pet-friendly housing, we anticipate that more people will need to make this difficult decision as property owners increase rent fees.”
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