PASSAIC COUNTY, New Jersey (WABC) -- The record-high inflation has caused a new crisis at some local animal shelters. Some families say they are no longer able to afford to keep their pets or are able ...

Animal shelters are facing higher costs and fewer donations — as well as more mouths to feed. Facing a looming recession, they might have to turn away animals that "depend on us for survival." Many ...

Rising inflation means people are having to give up pets they can't afford, animal shelters say. Animal shelters are facing higher costs and fewer donations — as well as more mouths to feed. Facing a ...

GIVE UP THEIR FURRY FRIEND. IT IS ALWAYS BUSY, TYPICALLY THEY HAVE 700 ANIMALS IN THE SHELTER. THAT NUMBER GOES UP. ADOPTIONS ARE NOT COMING -- ADOPTIONS ARE NOT COMING IN FAST ENOUGH. >> ONE IMPACT ...

Some pet owners are giving up their animals as families struggle to pay for housing and necessities amid today's inflation. In New York City, surrenders by owners of dogs and cats at the Animal Care ...

The state’s largest animal shelter is pleading for foster care help to alleviate crowding that officials attribute to increasing surrenders linked to inflation and post-pandemic returns to normalcy.

WELLINGTON, Fla. (CBS12) — Family pets are being surrendered at Palm Beach County animal shelters at unprecedented rates. Volunteers at Big Dog Ranch Rescue believe it's an unintended consequence of ...

Consumers pulled back on animal-based meat purchases in January after a slight uptick in sales and volume in December, likely related to holiday celebrations at home which for many Americans center ...

Inflation isn’t just hitting consumers; it’s hitting critters as well. At the Stone Zoo in Stoneham and Franklin Park Zoo in Boston, the price of food alone for the animals has increased by $30,000, ...

Record inflation has caused an overcrowding crisis for North Jersey's animal shelters with fewer people able to afford their current pets or to adopt a new one. As families adjust to life after the ...

Animal shelters are seeing their worst crowding in three years as the pandemic adoption boom cools and inflation drives owners to surrender their pets in droves. About 23 million Americans adopted ...