Where do you get your pets from?

Question

If you realized that each year, in this country alone, millions of healthy, adoptable cats and dogs are killed because there are not enough homes for them all. Read the article on The Crisis of Pet Overpopulation. Too many companion animals competing for too few good homes is the most obvious consequence of uncontrolled breeding. Living creatures have become throwaway items to be cuddled when cute and abandoned when inconvenient.
You can help solve the crisis of pet overpopulation by spaying and neutering your pets. Did you know that one female dog and her offspring can give birth to 67,000 puppies. In seven years, one cat and her young can produce 420,000 kittens.

If you viewed the video at: http://www.mypetnanny.info/pd/index...

With that knowledge, would you change your mind?

HappyCamp - No the overpopulation is not going down. Thank you for that long beautiful answer, but this is only true in some shelters, not most. There are many shelters across the country that people do not come and adopt a pet for days. These shelters have no choice but to put the animals down. Also, view this petition: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/621738786 Read what people are writing. As you can see the overpopulation is not going down. It's worse.

As, you can see there are many shelters/rescue groups across the country that are overcrowed. North Carolina and other states still uses gas chambers. Look a petition for NC: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/109677467?ltl=1155390470

Not to mention where did that puppy in the window come from? Chttp://www.mypetnanny.info/pd/Laws/Laws.htm Click on Pet Store/Puppy mill

Petland:
http://www.idausa.org/campaigns/petland/campaign.html
http://www.idausa.org/campaigns/petland/news/petstore.html

Answer 1

I adopted my german shepherd from an animal shelter.

She is the smartest, kindest, most loyal and gentle dog I have ever owned.

Answer 2

I personally have rescued/adopted all of my pets from either the humane society, or other friends/family who did not want them, or who were unable to care for them anymore. That being said, I do not think that people should only go to the humane society. As one answer said, if you are looking for a companion, then by all means, go to the humane society. If you are looking for certain traits, you can try there, but there is no garuntee that you will get a herding dog, a protection dog, a guarding dog, etc. The only trained dogs I know of that can come from where ever are drug sniffing dogs. There are certain personality traits that any dog can exhibit that will allow them to do that type of work, otherwise, there are reasons why certain breeds, and certain types exist. I also disagree with the previous statement about getting pets from PetLand (in particular) and pet stores in general. The pets from there literally come in on semi trucks from puppy mills. They are no cleaner, safer, or "better" than dogs from the humane society, they just rely on the fact that humans have an inate desire to cuddle cute little things (notice they never have dogs or cats older than 3 to 5 months, they aren't cute after that...) and the persuasion of being able to finance a mutt (after all, that's what 90% of their dogs are, un papered, accidentally or purposefully bred mutts). Those dogs come from similar, or sometimes worse, conditions as the dogs and cats from the humane society. Admittedly, sometimes the dogs and cats at the humane society aren't presented as nicely, but a bath and cute picture can make a $150 dog at the pound, look the same as a $1500 dog at PetLand. Pets should be obtained from the humane society or from breeders who are responsible about their breed, who breed only one or two breeds (in rare cases they can breed more, but RARE RARE RARE cases exist for this) and who are active with their dogs (showing, doing agility, training, things like that, not just playing in the back yard). They breed to better their lines, and better the breed as a whole, not to make money. So that being said, no I wouldn't change my mind, but I always thought that way.

Answer 3

If you need a specific animal for a job, you should always buy from a breeder. We raise Great Pyrenees to sell to farm as guardian dogs. You can't just hope a dog from the shelter has the needed qualities. If you want a pet as a companion, shelters are fine and should be used. Never, ever buy a pet from a pet store unless absolutly necessary.

Answer 4

im 14, and when i was 8 we got our dog, that we still have from a toy poodle breeder. i was only 8 and i really just wanted a dog, so i didn't think about the right place to get it, my mom did that. now that im aware of overpopulation af animals, whenever i do get my own house, and start MY life, i think im gonna adopt a puppy from the shelter, or something like that.
you're right, many people breed their pets carelessly, and then sell them, but the breeding should really be left up to the people who are licensed to do that, and it's their life.

Answer 5

I have found all of my animal one way or another
My first Kitty was dumped at Catalina Cruses as a kitten
My second Kitty was with her Mother and siblings under a pile of re-bar on a construction site. The workers not knowing they were there moved the pile and killed the mother and all the siblings but this one. She was caught and I took her.
All of my Doves were rescued after escaping and starving in the wild.
My parrot flew on to my fence and was emaciated about 15 years ago.
I love them all I wouldn't trade them for the world!!

Answer 6

all the pets I've adopted are from shelters or rescue organizations. i donate some of my monthly paycheck, via direct debit, to our local SPCA.

and to the person above saying release them into the wild, you cant release domesticated animals into the wild without destroying the eco systems. also you endanger the lives of each domesticated animal you release. great that they dont get euthanized but they SLOWLY die from any bites or injuries they may receive in the wild. and if you go to your local shelter and find animals that are in the basement, you may want to start a petition to get that shelter fixed up. or you are jst looking in the wrong places for animals.

Answer 7

well. often there's a good reason behind why ppl dont' want their pets anymore, and it's not because they get lazy and dont' want to take care of them anymore (even though of course, this is natural and occurring), but i get my pets from petland because who wants to worry about adopting a pet that might have something wrong witht htem. i mean, have you seen the dogs and cats at the adoption center? okay so they may not be strays teeming with filth anymore, but if the adoption centers were to really make an effort getting ppl to adopt more, they'd at least make the animals more presentable and not locked up int he basement where you hear howling and barking. i would just say that they should release them into the wild , like a forest or soemthing where there are squirrels and whatever animals these animals can hunt. and okay they're domestic animals, but anything left in the wild long enough, trying to survive, will find its way.

and i'm assuming you're talking pets in general and not just cats/dogs.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

All of my dogs came from shelters, 3 cats came from a rescue (they were strays) and 2 came from a private owner who could not keep her.

Answer 10

Yeah I know. We got our cat neutered even though it would've been cute to have kittens. Also, we saved her as a kitten from beeing killed!!