The high costs of food and medicine for pets, along with the challenges of a country in crisis and the migration of hundreds of thousands of Cubans over five years, have also contributed to an increase in abandoned animals. Although the government provides vaccines, sterilization, and some free clinics, it does not have the means to provide shelter and food for street cats and dogs. Therefore, this task has fallen to selfless animal lovers who take them into their homes. (AP Video: Ariel Fernández and MIlexsy Durán)
Some residents of Havana rescue cats and dogs as the state cannot provide shelter and food.
The high costs of food and medicine for pets, along with the challenges of a country in crisis and the migration of hundreds of thousands of Cubans over five years, have also contributed to an increase in abandoned animals. Although the government provides vaccines, sterilization, and some free clinics, it does not have the means to provide shelter and food for street cats and dogs. Therefore, this task has fallen to selfless animal lovers who take them into their homes. (AP Video: Ariel Fernández and MIlexsy Durán)
