playing an important role in helping humans get through this difficult time. Shelter-in-place orders around the country have even created a surge in demand for pets to provide both companionship and comfort.
Elliott points to the numbers. Normally the society might have around 100 dogs in foster care on any given day, but now 214 are being fostered. And their kennel no longer has nearly enough animals to meet demand."We saw a nearly 70 percent increase in animals going into foster care through our NYC and Los Angeles foster programs, compared to the same time period in 2019," the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said in a statement provided to ABC News.
Jomarie Bolich, Hillside SPCA employee, cleans a cat tree in the facility's cat area in Pottsville, Pa., Wednesday, April 1, 2020. Due to COVID-19 concerns, Hillside employees are cleaning more often and wearing masks and gloves while only allowing two visitors at a time in the cat area.
How fabulous - best news ever 🐾
CanOfWhoopAssss Excuse me, but they are breaking the social distance orders! Why hasn’t the local sheriff arrested them yet?!?!? AshleyMoodyFL
Well Done good people of the world
That's brilliant news
Wonderful News!!!!
Ok we see all the females that work there. Where are all the men that work there?
doberkidz Great news, its like winning the lotary.
Are these people now out of work?
Thank you for all that you do!
Wonderful 👏👏❤️
And we can only hope they all went to safe loving homes and dont end up back there.
Thank you 😊
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That's awesome!!
As a rescue Mom this is so heartwarming
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This is the best tweet I have ever seen 😘🐕
Yes sir let's go!
dianafromprague Believe me, 1 week after corona vaccin they will be full again.
God bless and reward you.
Imagining ... How many bacteria from dog saliva ... And among sufferers are children
Social distancing ffs
God bless those people who took in an animal to care for.
This is amazing, I hope they've all gone to good and loving homes 💕
LouiseQuoVadis Not a time to cheer, really... Meat is scarce.
Thank you 🙏 Pets need good homes 🐕 🐈 🏡
that's good
Dream come true 😍😍😍😍😍
What a great thing! Now please, don’t let them be full again after the pandemic is over
Im gonna need some better social distancing guidelines being practiced
wow, ABC actually pushing a nice story...they hope for the worst...nice relief
Ready for Creepy Joe Biden to fill them with illegal immigrants, exactly as he and Obama did before and for the Street Gangs merely wearing Red or Blue standing on Regional Cities street corners vs overcrowded, now infected Federal Prisons.
People are out of work with no money 🤔🤔. Is it any wonder animals are disappearing in neighborhoods and being picked up at kennels , I’m guessing a lot of these critters are ending up on dinner tables so don’t get excited
I like to see this stuff.
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Big 😊
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yea
Great moment
Take the good with bad, happy for all the puppers
Too many people there 😬
What wonderful news!
Bless all of you 🙏
Congrats!!!!! 🙏❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Awesome!
Jesus
😎♥️
waltalexxander
Great job
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👌🏽👍🏽👋🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
Such wonderful news.
Good news, thank you
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Oh kennels I was ganna say they all look like they were in jail cells
Such a wonderful good news story at the perfect time!
Congrats to all of you and three cheers...
HoltonBarb Hi Barbara. If all these people can be at an EMPTY kennel to make a feel-good video, then perhaps there is hope for cautiously re-opening parts of the economy.
What they didn’t say is that China bought them all for their wet markets
Help us in the poor rural shelters of Louisiana! These pups have been waiting since Hurricane Barry! shelter QuarantineLife rescuedogs
Now let's work on the small rural shelters IPAC Iberia Louisiana Struggling with long term dogs, still recovering from TS Barry.
Congratulations to all of the staffers👏👏👏👏👏 May adopted dogs live happily with their new owners🐶🐕❗️
Happy news!
Dogs people
PRAYING THESE R FOREVER ADOPTIONS, NOT CONVENIENCE ADOPTIONS
That seems like a lot of people working in a kennel doesn’t it?
love
Good job ABC. Reporting real and good stories for the first time history👏👏👏👏
CutlerRidgeLAZ
WilliamColvard Happy news. Almost looks like a jail in there.
Hey!!!!!! This is “good news,” you guys aren’t supposed to report the “good news!!!!” Stay in your lane....
I see no social distancing people
I hope China didn’t buy them!
Girl at the end is bad as fuck
What happens when everyone goes back to work? Kennels fill back up.
I didN't know that women are so fond of the job of looking after dogs in cages.
Very good news,God bless all those.
They will be rounding up those animals soon enough after all this phoney sympathy ends, just like hero status for grocery and retail workers we will be back to the $$$ class soon enough when we all go back to judging each other on our income and lifestyles.
How many did they put to “sleep “ ?
Puppies!
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Wow, that is fantastic. I hope this is true since it is abc reporting
BretBaier Good job to all!
When food banks run out, animal shelters suddenly popular.
Congratulations! Much love!
I just hope they have gone to good homes. And don’t end up chained up outside all day when this is over !
That's around 3 grand a pup. It wouldn't be hard to track down the robbers using the pups with this case. An expensive dog breed like that would stick out like an sore thumb. Sadly, those lowlifes will probably end up killing the puppies.
this is great sadly many of these families will forfeit their animals after this is all over be cause they wont have time to care for them
I know them! That's Kibbles and Bits!
It’s great. But....
What a 'dog-gone' shame.
Toilet paper now puppies?
Puppies shouldn’t be sold in pet stores. I don’t feel bad for the business owner.
BretBaier Stocking the fridge.
BretBaier This is amazing 🙋🏼♀️
What I'm concerned about is that when all this is over, many of those dogs will be returned. Much easier to take care of a dog when you're home 24/7 and bored out of your mind.
WOW! That's a lot of unconditional love and puppy poo!
That’s definitely a wonderful news. I just hope that the owners wouldn’t abandon their pets after the pandemic is over
Not a single male among the group of volunteers.
I LOVE THIS VIDEO👏👏👏
Yeah, but what happens when we all get back to work and suddenly the 4-legged companion whose companionship got you through quarantine becomes a burden you have to take for walks/hang with instead of your friends? My prediction: shelters post-Corona more packed than ever.
Pets are now becoming a threat to human to human relationships...
Our kennel been closed for the longest , I check each week 😒 be nice to be able to adopt a dog here
How hard will it be to track down a couple of thugs with 20 dogs?
This is amazing but why are there so many women in there, all so close together? Especially if there are no animals needing care....?
Wtf is wrong w people?!? They're puppy mill dogs anyway. Someone needs to rob the actual mills they come from so they have zero profits.
Those pups orchestrated the breakout from the inside. They’re probably in a non-extradition country right now, eating good and restoring old boats! ivebeeninsidetoolong
Don't dog have A CHIP implanted? Can it monitored their locations?
$3000+ per puppy? Thieves stealing from thieves
The racist replies about the Asian community are SO uncalled for. Just ignorant and rude.
These are your Moderators in the Comment section at Please clean up your Mods.
That's about $3,200 for each dog. The real crime is being committed by that store.
😡hope they get them
Can we bring back stoning?
Lol
Omg they keep them in boxes overnight with no one there to watch them? What kind of monsters run this place Do NOT buy animals from these shitty people.
Omg cmon....
I wouldn't go to any local chinese restaurant now.
This is why money, man's invention, makes God look like a complete idiot. Money is so much better than anything the creator provides us for life, liberty and happiness. End the lock-down, I need my man-made reward system back to normal!
Karma's a bitch 😥😥😥😥😥😥🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶
your linked article has nothing to do with stolen puppies. I feel manipulated! 😤
What is wrong with people? I hope they get caught and those puppies are returned safe and unharmed.
Scumbags
jelenakarajcic
LindsayLiquori
That's so cute !
These cats been tested? You just gonna take a chance on spreading this virus to the fish so when the public returns they can be infected? It also promotes violence as fish are natural prey for cats! Who’s idea is this?
cambastien1
pamerlz
Jaaannnnnnnnnn
KatieGildner
Then the cat's world view collapsed.😭
Pleasure to watch it breaks the tension. Beautiful ABC news
Maybe I'll watch these for 60-90 min each day, during the covid pressers
Made my day
Want to touch the fishy
Those kittens are adorables...
I’m here for this content.
So adorable 😻
this is so cute! ❤ I didn't see the scuba diver before.
Blow with it.
VLADDO Aww 🥰
Some awesome person took kittens to the aquarium!!
HeidiWigdahl 😂
I love it!!
ryanbarta
This is amazing!!!
Nice
So abc views this as more newsworthy than covering insider trading by politicians in Washington DC for decades & the Epstein case. What exactly is the purpose of abc news again
Love this
Go meowtins!
This is so cute
My Cat would have wanted those fish ... yum yum!
A thing of beauty
I just want to kiss their noses (best kitty part)!! I can’t help it. When I see a cute kitty, I just start kissing them.
10번 국민의당 출석^^
Thank you for making me smiling
They should keep doing this at night even when quarantine is over
Please show this type of video more! I am getting Covid-19 depression(´°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥ω°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥｀)
R_ZenBo Little babies..💕💕💕💕
😍😍♥️
Two words: 'sensory overload'.
Why does that last image show a kitten running around as though it is wearing kitten mittens...
Best video of the day ! 🐱🐱🐱
Cat: ' Stop screwing with me and throw me a fishing rod, now!'
Why
Peeerrrrrrrrrfect 😺
The kittens look scared and overwhelmed in a strange place.
Too cute ty
anahi_qb
5 years later, they were all addicted to catnip, trying to recreate that high the experienced that day.
Absolutely ADORABLE!
There's nothing sweeter in the world than baby kittens. Nothing.
rokunanashi Im crying happy tears
Adorable
abbyyrose8 awe I wish we could take Jasper & Izzy to the aquarium
So adorable!
joy
johannagavert, 88markieboi88
Show them the shark tank?😂😂
skybluebink Dinner!!😹😹😹
RandyTRowe Then they grow to be great athletes capable of incredible feats...
Wow, an indescribably beautiful spectacle never-before-seen!
Lovely video! 💕♥️❤️
Mmmm.....they look delicious!
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sign me up! I want all of them! 🤭
My cats would love to do that.
So cute
What a delight to kitten senses.
Kitten seeing 🐠: ‘I’ll take that one and that one and one of those.’ Kitten seeing jellyfish: ‘Not you.’
SarahDumb4
Aww, so adorable! aquariumtour🐈
Curiosity!
Look at these sweet babies
ABC should always show kittens rather than Trump.
sanitythief
I could watch this for hours.
That is me watching the food network not being able to gather ingredients!!
Love this 🥰
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