Huskies overwhelm San Diego shelters [Video]

So many Huskies end up in shelters and rescues because people often buy or adopt huskies without considering the amount of time, patience, and money required to provide for them.

“It’s overwhelming for everybody including the dogs,” said public information specialist, Viviana Castellanos.

Shelters and rescues across San Diego County have been particularly hit hard by an uptick of abandoned huskies, including at Chula Vista Animal Services. They currently have nearly three dozen Huskies in their care.

“We have 20-25 Huskies at any given time, right now we have 29. So, that’s a very large number of animals in our facility. This trend as far as having 20 plus, we’re going on at minimum 3 to 4 years of that being pretty normal here,” said Ashley Milo, Chula Vista Animal Services. “We …