Reports of a troubling trend have begun to surface across the country of large numbers of people returning pets that they adopted during the pandemic. Shelters across the United States are seeing higher than average rates of returns, the BBC reports. About a year ago, these same shelters saw a spike in adoptions as people faced lockdowns due to the pandemic. "We made a lot of changes to our adoption process to prevent people from returning dogs once pandemic ended," Jones explained. She credits the shelter’s adoption process, which stresses that pet adoption is "a lifelong commitment."

Source: Fox News May 10, 2021 18:45 UTC