As impulse buys, pets rank up there with time-shares as long-term commitments their owners might rue. Witness the number of people surrendering their pandemic pets.
A homemade gift certificate for a new pet, maybe. You could wrap it up with a leash or litter box.“It’s like picking someone’s wife or husband for them,” says Penny Stone. Better to leave it to the recipients to choose the companions with which they’ll spend the next several years.
Still, Stone is leery of pets as Christmas gifts. It’s not just the choose-your-own-partner-for-life thing. It’s also that as impulse buys, they rank up there with time-shares, long-term commitments their owners might rue. “Lots of animals get pancreatitis because of the turkey people feed them at Christmas,” Stone says. Note that Boxing Day is the busiest day of the year at many pet hospitals.
What happened? First, the Humane Society couldn’t travel to remote B.C. communities after COVID hit, meaning that it couldn’t continue the neutering programs that kept a lid on the number of unwanted animals. Some of the people whose desire for pandemic pals led to a dog shortage in 2020 have found they no longer want — or can handle — the animals, many of which went unsocialized and untrained during their isolation.
The result? In addition to those 63 puppies, the humane society currently has about 200 dogs and cats in its care.
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