by Pajarita » Wed Dec 30, 2020 7:44 pm
Yes, adoptions did become more difficult, no open houses, no meet-n-greet, etc. But, thankfully, the rescues have become more resourceful and creative and, after the first few months when everybody was kind of waiting the whole thing out not yet realizing that this was going to be a 'long haul' type of thing, they've managed to pick up. Some of them even empty their kennels... I just gave 6 kittens I had taken from a feral mother (I manage a feral colony) to a cat rescue who contacted me after I put them up for adoption in CL (I am VERY careful and only adopt out to people with EXCELLENT vet refs!) because although they had adults, they had ran out of kittens and actually had a waiting list for them. Needless to say, to me it was like winning the lottery because they would do all the medical (which we usually pay out of our own pocket - I do not charge a penny for any of the animals I rehome) and all the screening (which takes a HUGE amount of time - time I do not really have). AND, to put the icing on the cake, they offered to take the mother to their own vet for spaying this coming Monday - which, again, it was a godsent to me because the inexpensive clinics I use stopped doing ferals due to Covid and the last one we did cost $330 (we couldn't wait any longer because he had been in my basement a couple of months already waiting for the clinics to start doing ferals again and that's no life for a cat - he is now living with us and doing great).