Minneapolis ends appointment requirement for animal shelter visits

Minneapolis residents seeking to undertake a pet are now not required to make an appointment earlier than visiting the town’s animal shelter.

The Metropolis of Minneapolis introduced the brand new Animal Care and Management coverage Thursday, ending a requirement that was first applied initially of the COVID-19 pandemic.

It comes as Minneapolis Animal Management offers with severe capability points, prompting it to waive adoption charges and situation an pressing name for adoptees final week because it has “extraordinarily excessive variety of canine and cats” presently in its shelter and its foster houses.

Now that the appointment requirement has been lifted, these curious about adopting a pet can go to Animal Care and Management and not using a prior appointment. The shelter is positioned at 212 seventeenth Ave. N. and is open from 1 p.m. to five p.m. Monday by way of Friday.

Regardless of the appointment requirement, 2022 proved to be a report yr for adoptions at Animal Care and Management, with round 900 pets getting new houses final yr.

And Minneapolis isn’t alone in seeing a increase of pet adoptions up to now few years. In response to a 2021 report from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, one in 5 U.S. households adopted a canine or cat because the starting of the pandemic.