animal shelter

How to use animal shelter in a sentence

• Pets will also go through a shift when offices reopenSo many people adopted pets during the pandemic that at one point animal shelters were running out of dogs.

  Media Briefing: Delta variant disrupts media companies’ office return timelines, employees’ preparations | Tim Peterson | August 5, 2021 | Digiday

• While most Americans may associate the idea of animal shelter with adopting a pet cat or dog, the first such places tended to involve horses, with activists focused on the welfare of animals who were a key mode of transportation.

  How the Pandemic Pet-Adoption Boom Fits Into the Long History of Rescuing Animals | Olivia B. Waxman | June 3, 2021 | Time

• Many local animal shelters and rescues get animals from crowded facilities in North Carolina, South Carolina, Puerto Rico, Texas, Georgia and Mississippi.

  So many pets have been adopted during the pandemic that shelters are running out | Dana Hedgpeth | January 6, 2021 | Washington Post

• They left their contact information with as many people as they could and visited the local animal shelter in the hopes that Abby might have been brought there.

  A dog was missing for weeks. Then it wandered into Walmart and found its owner working at the register. | Sydney Page | December 4, 2020 | Washington Post

• I’d like to urge everyone to check out your animal shelters before you spend hundreds of dollars on a registered breed.

  Hints From Heloise: Keeping reusable grocery bags free of germs | Heloise Heloise | November 6, 2020 | Washington Post