Where do pets of COVID-hit families go?
The Hindu
Private clinics with shelters are taking in dogs and cats even as these animals’ human-relatives battle COVID-19
Forty-four-year-old S. Valli has a packed schedule for the last few weeks. It includes a visit to New Corner Stone Multi Speciality Clinic, a private vet-clinic-cum-shelter for pets. This may strike her acquaintances as odd — she does not have pets; nor does she work at this veterinary clinic at Vepery. Valli has been called in to ‘temporarily’ cook food for more than 15 boarding dogs at the clinic. These dogs have been ‘sent away’ from home, after members of their human family tested positive for the novel Coronavirus, and have to focus on having the health issue addressed.
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