I believe things are way worse than the gubmt & media are letting on (no surprise there
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Using the dog rescue/shelter biz as a barometer of how ppl are doing, the level of surrenders/abandonment's/strays intake vs adoption traffic is equal too or worse now & in the last 8 months or so than the 2009/2010 recession !! When times are good (like during the Trump years), intake was way down & adoptions were strong - many times we had few or no dogs for adoption & now were overflowing & turning surrenders away, adoption traffic is thin to nonexistent.