To keep pets in homes, animal welfare groups help owners
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August 19, 2020
Early in May, Nydia Bonefont was concerned when her dog wouldn't eat and seemed lethargic. She realized that Papi, a 9-year-old Beagle/Cavalier mix, must have hurt himself — he cried when he was touched. But she was without income to pay for vet care.
"I lost my job a while ago, and then the pandemic started," she says. "I went in March to see the doctor for very bad bronchitis and asthma, and he said that I have to stay home because I was high-risk."
Fortunately, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has a clinic in her Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood where she had ta...
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