The current pandemic has had a negative impact on pet welfare. It also emphasizes the interconnectedness of animal, human, and environmental health as well as the significance of a coordinated transdisciplinary One Health strategy in preventing future COVID-19 outbreaks. This close relationship w/ street animals contributed to our developing anxiety about people. Because they are highly sociable creatures that not only rely on us for food but also like our companionship. As the new coronavirus pandemic spreads around the world, having a devastating impact on human health, pets are becoming unwitting victims of the pandemic fear. Owners who have been obliged to temporarily abandon their houses have regrettably left many of their pets alone at home. Moreover, despite the fact that there is no proof that pets may transmit the virus or develop the coronavirus illness 2019 (COVID-19), public concern that pets might indeed play a role in spreading COVID-19 has resulted in pets being abandoned or even murdered.
Many pets have been hungry and becoming ill in recent months, as reported on the news. Like those in charge of a pet shelter in Rizal, those in charge of that shelter are encouraging people to adopt dogs because otherwise, they would be forced to conduct mercy killings on the animals since they can no longer afford to take care of them.
As a result, the management is unable to feed them any further, due to a shortage of funds. Layoffs followed, which is why there are so few animal caretakers there, they had no choice but to lay off since their machinery was about to run out. As a result, it is important that we learn to care for animals now, to care for them as companions and to treat them as members of our family. Because, like people, their lives matter and have worth.
Written by: Jesus Parungao
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