{"id":37363,"date":"2021-05-20T13:30:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T12:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shefnews.co.uk\/?p=37363"},"modified":"2021-05-20T13:30:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T12:30:48","slug":"watch-sheffield-animal-shelter-under-pressure-from-pandemic-puppy-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/05\/20\/watch-sheffield-animal-shelter-under-pressure-from-pandemic-puppy-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Sheffield animal shelter under pressure from pandemic puppy crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thousands of puppies bought during the Covid-19 are now being returned to dog shelters, placing animal sanctuaries under increased pressure.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thornberry Animal Sanctuary in Sheffield said that&#8217;s putting a strain on their resources as many dogs coming in haven&#8217;t been neutered or properly trained.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the RSPCA said they had a 68% increase in visits to their &#8216;Find a Pet&#8217; page from March to December last year compared to the same period in 2019, a rise of 15 million.<\/p>\n<p>RSPCA dog welfare expert Dr Samantha Gaines said: &#8220;We expect that we\u2019ll see a major dog welfare crisis this year as huge numbers of dogs are relinquished to rescue centres, sold on online or even abandoned; with struggling charities forced to pick up the pieces.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sheffield dogs charity on the pandemic puppy crisis\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IjxmIZhsozQ?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of puppies bought during the Covid-19 are now being returned to dog shelters, placing animal sanctuaries under increased pressure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":193,"featured_media":37407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,21,103],"tags":[10,725,386,728,713],"class_list":["post-37363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-charity","category-news","category-watch","tag-covid-19","tag-dog-shelters","tag-dogs","tag-pandemic-puppies","tag-pets"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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