April 9 2020
Muttville Senior Dog Rescue and Family Dog Rescue in #SF see spike in dog adoptions.
From her backyard, Sherri Franklin, founder of Muttville, a senior dog rescue group in San Francisco, is using her phone to show Ziggy, an 8-year-old Chihuahua, to a person who’s interested in adopting a dog.
All meet-and-greets are done via FaceTime or Zoom, since Muttville’s offices are closed to comply with the shelter-in-place order.
Franklin says applications from people who want to foster or adopt a dog have flooded the nonprofit.
There are normally 20 to 25 applications a week. That number jumped to 120 the first week of the stay- at-home order.
“I’ve been involved with animal rescues for 25 years. I have never seen anything like this,” said Franklin.
- Amber Lee
https://muttville.org/press_clip/20200409-muttville-senior-dog-rescue-and-family-dog-rescue-in-sf-see-spike-in-dog-adoptions
