Adoptions are on hold for thousands of dogs and cats in Texas, potentially putting the animals at risk of being euthanized, because of efforts to stop the spread of the New World screwworm, an insect that has crossed the border from Mexico into the United States for the first time in 60 years.
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This is heartbreaking. I feel like every day I’m waking up to more bad news in animal welfare. My area is experiencing a panleukopenia outbreak in our cat population, so I can’t even foster feral kittens right now without putting my own special needs cat at risk. It’s so helpless.
