Samantha Berger is used to living on the edge. It’s what makes her well suited to the often precarious nature of her work — saving and sheltering animals.
“We are working with emotional things at the best of times. So it puts your stress levels and your emotions on a seesaw because it is just like an absolute blank wall. You don’t know where you are going. You don’t know how you are going to get these babies into homes.”600 stray cats and dogs for rehoming each year, closed its doors in the week before the start of the March 27 lockdown.
Weeks later, the organisation released a statement suggesting these conditions had worsened in the wake of lockdowns. Berger concedes that she ends up adopting to well-off families, who won’t feel the economic pinch of the lockdown as keenly as many others. But, she says, the effect of the coronavirus on less financially secure households will have a knock-on effect on how animal welfare organisations will be able to cope.Every evening Cora Bailey writes a mental diary on the way home from the clinic so she does not end up “off-loading” on her husband.
As people lose their jobs, more animals are taken to Claw. “Some days we get two or three. Other days we get seven or eight. It’s more than we have ever experienced before.
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