Due to the recent oil disaster in the Gulf Coast, many pets are finding themselves displaced with economically stricken owners unable to provide continued adequate care. In this time of need, animal shelters are especially hopeful for finding loving homes for the many dogs that enter their doors. The article below was recently published by the Washington Post providing information on where to adopt some of these pets in need that have been transported to the DC metro area.
GAITHERSBURG, Md. - More than two dozen dogs from the Gulf Coast arrived at the Humane Society of the United States in Gaithersburg on Wednesday, looking for new homes.
After a 20-hour drive, Miss Tee and other lab puppies are now almost a thousand miles from their former home in St Bernard Parish, Lousiana. “They’re sort of these unseen victims of something like this oil spill, where people just can’t care for them anymore,” said Betsy McFarland, the senior director of Companion Animals.
Thanks to what has become the nation’s worst environmental disaster, many people in the Gulf region are without work and giving up their pets. Some local animal shelters are at five times capacity. Among the dogs brought to Maryland include three Shih Tzus dropped off at a Louisiana shelter by an out-of-work fisherman.
“They’re crowded, you could see that they were crowded, someone had just dropped off a dog,” said the Humane Society’s Sarah Barnett. The Loudoun County Animal Shelter is taking in a third of the pups, hoping — after a quick check up — each of them will find a loving home.
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