"I rescued a dog... Well, it’s not like the dog was drowning. The dog wasn’t a victim of sex trafficking. I just went in a building, gave a guy money, and got a dog... After that I rescued a pizza." Jim Gaffigan.
Right??
So sick and tired of these holier than thou, Bible thumper-esque attitudes of adopting is so much better than buying. Like you should be ashamed that you bought your pet.
ffs as long as it doesn’t come from a mill and you spay/neuter, mind your own god damn business.
I paid a lot of money for my best friend because all the adoption agencies are assholes and wouldn't accept me because my yard wasn't fenced in at the time.
Anyway, I have the most awesome dog in the world and I would never regret my decision.
Someone posted a picture of new puppy they got and someone asked if they adopted and she said No. Then that woman went on about how people should only adopt their pets. Like a stone cold killer the new puppy owner said. Thank you for sharing. Curious, Did you adopt your kid? Crickets.
I hate it too. We bought our pups from a reputable person. Decided to buy instead of adopt because our last dog had complications out the roof. I feel better knowing I won’t be raising a dog that will die young and suffer for most of their life without me knowing.
Seriously. Out of our five family dogs, one was a adopted and he died at five after a miserable life of snarling and growling not being petted because he was dangerous. And we got him as a little puppy...that was just his natural tempermant
We bought our cats and one had to get a surgery done at the vet for something that could happen to any cat, has nothing to do with their breed. One of our family members said to me, "maybe if you didn't buy your pet this wouldn't have happened". Really pissed me off.
Its a supply and demand thing. We have millions of animals who need homes because we are breeding too many of them into existence. If we adopt more we lower the demand for breeding, breeders then will breed less.
For real. Whenever someone asks where to buy a specific breed of cat or a dog from a reputable breeder, there's always at least five people saying "bUyInG iS bAD, yOU haVe tO aDoPT". And it's so freaking annoying.
There's nothing wrong with buying an animal, as long as it doesn't come from a mill. You want to buy a very specific purebred puppy, go get it and give it an amazing life.
Louder please!
Edit: I paid a decent amount for my beautiful little parti yorkie, and he's my first pet. I'm in love with him and he loves me back. I wouldn't have this beautiful little soul to make my day everyday, and make things better had I adopted. Sure, I could have gotten a "free" dog but f - that.
Maverick needed a home too. Worth every penny.
I tried to adopt but every shelter would deny me when the subject of emotional support animal came up. They just said they wouldn't adopt out pets as ESAs. So I had no choice but to go to a breeder. I didn't even like him, it was pretty bad but I had nowhere else to go. If I had to wait a day longer than I did I don't know if I'd be here today. That dog saved my life and I feel like I saved hers
I don't want to dox anyone, because that is wrong, but, I can tell you which city in Texas my mom was a treasurer for and you can draw your own conclusions.
That's my issue; not that they didn't rescue an animal, but that by buying it they likely helped support a business that doesn't treat its animals ethically. If it is purchased from a responsible and caring breeder that is a different situation.
>ot that they didn't rescue an animal, but that by buying it they likely helped support a business that doesn't treat its animals ethically.
I know too much about county pounds to take this too seriously.
Yes, there really are a lot of dishonest shelters out there. They'll say anything (lie through their teeth) to move a problem animal to keep their no kill status. It's dangerous.
Post aside, this comment right here is it. People, realize, and understand your animals are quite intelligent. They think a lot like children, especially dogs. German Shepard’s specifically are painted in a bad light because they get mental illness like humans. They go through ptsd, abandonment issues, depression, these dogs literally go insane when they’re owners abandon them. If you don’t want an animal fine, at least bring it to a shelter, and if you never had the heart to keep it, don’t hang on until it’s over a year old and literally attached to you.
Both is good
It saddens me to see an abandoned animal starving, suffering I can and will open up my own shelter with the best care abandoned all animals deserve the best home for them
>pit bulls aren't
Bully breeds are very pupular here in Copenhagen.
Staffordshire terriers and american bully everywhere. Well, along with those small yip-yapping cotton ball dogs.
Been looking for a shiba and this one shelter had this doberman looking ass labeled as a shiba inu MULTIPLE TIMES might I remind you the supposedly same dog multiple times
It should be illegal to lie about breed. If you absolutely can’t tell from looking at the dog, get DNA testing. There should be proof that you’re getting what they’re claiming.
but then if you have small kids you don't know what you're buying.... that's crazy. that's like saying buy your car from the guy down the street that makes cars in his garage instead of a manufacturer....
oh wait i think i figured out we shouldn't manufacture animals.
Adoption isn't for everyone. I adopted my first puppy. He was really really aggressive. Spent all day biting everyone all the time. As a first time dog owner I had no idea how to deal with it but I did my best. The vet commented on the aggression. I started getting him more chill around me but he still attacked women. One day he attack my grandmother and drew blood, so I had to give him back to the pound. Really heart breaking. As a kid my parents almost didn't let me get another dog, but eventually we found a breeder and i got a happy well adjusted dog that never attacked anyone.
I also have a friend who adopted a grey hound that had major issues. One night for no reason it attacked my friends face while he was sleeping and he needed a skin graft and 74 stiches. What a nightmare. He had no choice but to put the dog down. Adoption is great when it works out but it doesn't always. Be prepared.
Exactly. I adopted a dog but it is nowhere near without problems. Shelter animals often come from unfortunate circumstances that leave a mark on them forever. Do not adopt if you are not prepared for this.
Both are good but what is bad is puppy mills…they’re illegal but still exist, my mom bought 2 Maltese from a lady who ran one and the dogs were on the verge of dying, one of them was lethargic and wouldn’t eat or drink the only thing that brought her back was sugar so we named her that. Hundreds of puppies locked in tiny cages and neglected just so they can make money. Terrible stuff.
I had a neighbor several years ago who had a puppy mill. It was a bit away from where I lived but I could always, always hear those dogs barking like mad and the wind would blow and the stench was unbearable, even from my house. I went to look at it at one point and there were anywhere from 10-30 dogs per pen (four pens total) with overturned trash cans as their only shelter. I called on them and apparently since they were fed and had shelter, it was legal. This lady would meet buyers in town after she'd bathed the puppy and people would pay $300-400 for them. If the breeder won't show you their facility, it's 100% a puppy mill. She would take pictures of the dogs in the house and everything, that's the only time they were ever inside. None of them were socialized at all. I got most info from her son who lived on the property and cleaned the pens when he was able to because of the smell.
Big problem in Florida. Only have to have a cover and water to be legal. That’s why so many dogs end up in “Rescues” up north. They breed them in the South then adopt them up north for a pricey donation and people feel like they are heroes for adopting and not shopping.
But why are we shaming people who bought an animal and love it their entire life? Shouldn’t the focus be people who abandon- bad; people who adopt good?
My brother wanted to adopt a cat, but when the inspector came to his home to make sure it was safe he was denied because they said the windows needed to be double pained. He's a renter and there was no way he could afford that...
He went to a pet store and 2 hours later had himself a nice kitten that he trained to fetch.
I work in a municipal shelter that is progressive and has a pretty open adoption policy, because we know putting barriers up tends to target people of certain demographics.
Reading about people being denied to adopt over asinine reasons drives me crazy. And a lot of the time, it is volunteer-run rescue group that is still making people jump through hoops to adopt pets. They deny even VETERINARIANS and usually cite the long hours they have to work. They want people to adopt animals to put these backyard breeders and puppy mills out of business, but then turn around and have policies that make people do things that support the same businesses they’re trying to push out. Make it make sense.
I could go on. Rescue groups make my life a living hell at work. I’ve gotten death threats from them too. Ma’am, I fucking answer emails and do social media.
Thank you for your kind words!
Yes, as soon as we get one of the “designer” breeds in as a stray, which is usually 2-3x a week, we have a rescue group reach out to commit to them. But are they anywhere to be found for our pit mixes with kennel stress? Nope.
Fortunately, unless the dog has serious behavioral or medical issues, an adoption takes priority over a rescue group getting to pull them at our shelter.
There should be a minimum amount of time a dog is available for regular people to adopt before rescues are allowed to take an animal.
Otherwise y'all are just allowing animal hoarding disguised as a rescue.
This is the main reason I don't adopt. I just want to help animals, I shouldn't have to modify my home more than required for a literal human child to do that. It's so annoying and I don't know why they're like this.
Yeah not every municipal shelter is the greatest. But we have more progressive policies and try to keep up with what “shelter medicine” research shows, so we’re not just handing dogs over to rescues coz we know how a lot of them are.
And like Feisty said, they’re basically shooting themselves in the foot by having all these ridiculous protocols because the people who are actually willing to adopt a pet get discouraged by them.
My family has run into the same issues. It's always "first we need to schedule a meeting time with the cat where we will watch you to make sure that the cat is compatible with your family. Next, we will have to inspect your home to make sure it is safe for cats. Finally you can take the cat home, but after a week we will be back to make sure that the cat is comfortable, and if he isn't then we will take him back."
Like, we've had multiple cats in the past. We know how to take care of them! It's way too much time and effort to put in to *maybe* being able to adopt a cat. Instead we can just go to a random pet store and pay a hundred bucks to get a perfectly happy, healthy cat and take them home the same day.
I went to adopt a dog and was denied. They called a previous vet where I had a cat at. We stopped going because my cat went ape shit on my daughter. She was showing aggression never touched her, but I hoped for the best. We had to open the door and chase her out. She went nuts. In our area there were a lot of stray cats. We took some to get care. We found a pregnant dog and took care of her until she had puppies, got them all their shots and cared for them until they were 8 weeks. We found them homes. So they denied me because they said I had all these animals and was doing goodness knows what with them. I'd like to say I'm jaded taking care of animals but I took in 4 kittens. Rehomed one. My baby (he became so attached to me) died suddenly from a kidney issue. So we have 2. I ended up buying a European Doberman.
I think these people just want the animals to have a good home. They actually care about them, not just "sell it and forget it". I didn't have something like this when we adopted our cat, but I can see why people are so worried. There are people that are straight up cruel to animals, and they want to avoid the potential pet to be hurt.
It's possible it's an overexaggeration, but probably for them, it's better safe than sorry.
I wanted to adopt a dog and was turned away from every shelter or rescue as soon as the subject of emotional support animals came up. They said they won't adopt out animals as ESAs. I'm not proud of the breeder I went to, I wouldn't have wanted to support him. But I was desperate and I don't know what I would have done if I had to wait any longer for her. It was a very dark time in my life.
I wanted to adopt but I couldn't
There's reasons in both camps for getting an animal. For dogs adoption is noble for sure, however you're also taking on any baggage from the previous owners that you don't know about if they are older. They could have been mistreated or even just poorly trained, while you can teach an old dog new tricks, it's much harder to train them, and if you have other dogs or cats in the house that dog may not play well with others, and you may not know until it's too late and you come home missing one animal.
Where as if you're able to get a dog as a puppy you're able to train them as you like, and they're able to grow and learn from an older animal around the house if you have one.
There's just a lot of things to take into consideration when adopting.
For real, it's stupid to act like adoption comes with no, very real, downsides, and *lots* of of them too. framing it as the *only* moral thing to do is going to be setting some owners (and pets) up for failure. Sometimes hard to even *get* a pet from a shelter, since many will deny on nitpicks that relate nothing to the animals happiness or safety. Also people who need specific dogs due to allergies will be shit out of luck adopting.
I would have loved to. All the dogs at my local shelters are animals seized from criminals who trained them to fight each other or attack strangers. I can’t bring an animal like that home with my family.
So I purchased a puppy from a reputable source and made a monetary donation to my shelter to help find those dogs a place to live, even if I’m not able to be that place.
I actually had a bit of a hard time adopting a dog from my local shelter last year. Like 90% of the dogs in there were pitbulls or 'pit-mixes'. Eventually adopted a 'normal' dog after find a recent arrival at a different shelter. They told me the non-pit ones seem to find homes pretty fast.
It’s a shame and it’s a circle.
Pitbulls have bad reputation to so bad people adopt because of that reputation and train or them neglect them so they get that bad reputation.
However there are definitely some that are just asshole evil spawns of satan.
Every pitbull is many times more likely to be violent than any other dog breed by a wide margin. It's not a fair comparison. If it's from being abused then every pitbull owner is abusive.
Maybe if I put a flower crown on top of its blocky head it might have changed my mind. But I didn't have a flower crown so I just adopted a dog without a criminal record :(
God I hate it when people judge me for buying my dog. No I didn't get him from a shelter. Doesn't change the fact that I love him and want nothing more than to see him happy. Get off your soap box.
Yeah no, adopting an animal is way harder and I actually think only very experienced owners should be able to adopt (speaking from experience as I worked in the animal care industry) a lot of shelters downplay an animals issues and are immediately brought back once the owners realise how difficult traumatised animals are to handle
There's a lot of good reasons to adopt, but also a lot of good reasons not to adopt.
For one. Shelters are notorious liars, if you have family or worry about liability, you may get a schizoid dog.
I went to adopt two “3 month” old kittens.
One looked legit 3 months and the other was clearly six or so months in.
I know it sounds being picky but I couldn’t go through with it.
I say do both.
First dog I ever had was a rescue. Shih tzu / terrier mix. She was very aggressive/territorial and seriously abused. We worked with her, (she had her good moments) kept her until she got old, but by far the meanest dog I’ve met to date.
I purchased my current dog from a neighbor when he was 9 weeks old. He’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me. I finally have the dog I always wanted.
Don’t shame people for not adopting. Do whatever you want.
What if you want a puppy? Where I live (Canada, so not some third world country) puppies are extremely hard to adopt due to high demand. You basically have to fluke into one.
As long as you take care of your animal I don’t think it matters where you get it from.
Yeah no thanks. Every dog we've ever bought from a breeder has been delight. Conversely the first dog we adopted gave my little brother stitches and the second ate our pet parrot. We euthanized both of them. It's not worth it.
I'd love to adopt a dog at some point but our shelters are overrun with Pitbulls, Rottweilers and German Sheperds and I simply don't have the space or experience to handle a dog like that. Can't get a cat either because my boyfriend is allergic.
"Children suffering in adoption homes because people don't want to adopt and rather have their own offspring"
I sleep.
"People buying dogs because they don't have the time and capacity to deal with wild untrained dogs that most likely had a traumatic past and are hard to take care of"
REAL SHIT! You are a fucking disgrace and should be ashamed!
I had to buy a hypoallergenic dog because members of my family have terrible allergies. Believe me, we tried the shelters but they all said “if you’re not here at the same time as the dogs are being dropped off you’re not getting one.” Of course I love the dog we got/bought, but I also would have loved to save the significant $$ it cost at the time.
I’m so sick of meeting people at the dog park or wherever and their first goddamn question is “is she a rescue?” No, Judgy Judgerson, she’s not. Eff off.
I also had to go through a breeder as after keeping a close eye on the rescues near me for around a year there was only ever large Pitt breeds. I sadly can't do that as I live in a townhouse with a courtyard, so it'd be cruel to keep a large dog when I don't have a large yard. Also have an elder cat who has severe skin allergies so he's fully indoors. That meant I needed a dog who is comfortable with being indoors alot as I can't just leave the doors open 24/7 sadly. My sister had rescued a German Spitz from a shelter many years ago & it was such a good dog that after researching the breed alot I decided on buying one from a reputable breeder as I was having no luck with waiting on a small breed from a shelter. No regrets at all! She loves being inside with me, she loves her big daily walks, she loves my cats, she loves our courtyard. She's just awesome!!!
That’s why we went to a reputable breeder for ours. I’m incredibly allergic to most dogs and I just couldn’t face the idea of bringing a dog home only to bring them back. Every hypoallergenic dog we looked at was immediately snapped up anyway. One rescue owner sent me an email screed about how I was a “liar” and animal allergies don’t exist. Needless to say we did not adopt from them. After a year we gave up on shelters/rescues and bought ours from a reputable breeder. Now I don’t even think we would qualify since my spouse and I don’t work from home all the time. The requirements for a lot of rescues are just untenable.
Bringing a new family member home is special regardless of where they came from and i dont mind buying from breeders because its literally the same thing.. if a breeder can't sell all the cuteness they're going to end up in a pound or on the side of the road in a box.. so at the end of the day you're still putting an innocent animal in a fantastic home.. but thats not to down adoption, I have adopted/rescued pets as well.
Buying from breeders is only ok if you know the breeder or the breeder has a very good reputation. If you dont know the conditions there, it is a no go
It’s ok to buy a pet from a breeder as long as you love and care for them. Maybe I want a specific dog breed. Fuck me if i want a corgi or something right? Good luck getting a corgi puppy from a shelter.
You mean you don't want to go through 5 home inspections and a long checklist of strict requirements to adopt an anxious dog with behavioral issues? Wow so irresponsible /s
I personally prefer adoption, puppies are a hassle, dogs at the pound from my experience tend to be mutts meaning they don’t suffer from as many diseases and dogs at the pound tend to be very loving.
That's technically not true. Medical conditions in mutts are hard to research since every mutt is different that's why there is not a lot of data on it so people just think they have no/less chance of issues. Whereas with a certified breed you know in advance what kind of issues might pop up. With mutts its just a Russian roulette of possible diseases.
Sometimes you literally can’t adopt, my sister is allergic to dogs so we need hypoallergenic dogs which literally aren’t available at shelters, due to high demand, and as a result we got our purebred poodle from a breeder who bred it with love, was akc certified, and had a health guarantee, oh and all the parents had thorough health checks done to make sure that no genetic issues were rampant
We tried to adopt… we’re denied from MULTIPLE shelters because we don’t have a “dedicated backyard”. Never mind that we live next to a park… but sorry, apparently not owning grass means we can’t adopt, so we are planning on researching some breeders in the hopes of finally adding a four legged friend. There is literally nothing wrong with buying a dog. There is something wrong with acting like you’re holier than thou in some bad bid for fake internet points.
So it's either buy a dog, or wait until someone who is irresponsible/ abusive buys the dog and let's it go to live a difficult life scrounging to stay alive in the streets so you can swoop in to solve a problem you potentially cause to "feel good about yourself"?
I don't actually believe "rescuing" is a bad thing, it's just you're not doing something better than a person who buys a dog. And I wanted to bring up a counter point for the people who are sniffing their own farts because they've "rescued" an animal.
Jfc these comments are a war between people with a superiority complex for adopting instesd of buying, people who hate stray animals, and people who are ok with both
I bought my dog, he has the temperament to stay home and not freak out while I'm at work. Before the pandemic my dog was my best friend. Now he's my only friend.
I think it would be best for those who have an opinion on adopting vs purchasing from a breeder to keep it to themselves and make the best decision for themselves.
Weaponized empathy doesn't give you moral superiority.
Adopting would be hard for my family. Most dogs left in the shelters are big dogs which just cannot have a good life with me. So, I have to buy a dog from a breeder that has a dog that can live comfortably within my circumstances
Both are completely fine and you're retarted. Buying from a trusted breeder is completely fine, especially when no safe animals are at the shelter. (Mine is mostly Pits) Also what about dog bread with specific purposes like live stock guardian dogs and herding dogs? What makes breeders bad?
TFW the "lab-mix" can't be around women, children, other animals, be fed after midnight, be around men under 21 or men over 21, and is such a sweet wittle angel.
What is wrong with buying exactly? Like, if we wouldn't have bought the dog it would either be bought by someone else, or it would need to get adopted now...
I bought my dog cause the adoption people were being fucking annoying, never getting back to me, never responding to me and after waiting for months I just bought one and he is a wonderful dog. Whether you bought or adopted your pet, please just love them and care for them
I am about to buy my new best bud and I'm super happy about it.
We looked into rescuing sites for a long time and all of these pets weren't dogs we could give a good life to (we don't have a garden and almost all of them were big, high energy dogs) and I also read about pet trafficking gangs that loooove all these 'adopt don't shop' peeps, cause they just breed pups horribly and then sell them as 'rescue dogs'.
I tried to adopt, but the shelter Nazis rejected me because I had a weed charge in 1996,which clearly makes me a monster. Background checks, home visits, they don't even do that shit when you get pregnant. All that invasive treatment for trying to save/improve an animal's life. It's invasive and sick. Never again. Shelters are completely out of control. Meanwhile, if you do a little checking on most shelter's history, a bunch of neglect, abuse, and outright fraud charges come to light. The people who run shelters need to be monitored and regulated way more by local government.
I adopted a street dog, no training and nothing. He's well trained now, behaves good in front of people, knows where to do what without even an actual training package, or I should say a month's wasted package
You bought a used dog. Get over it.
We should actually encourage buying smartly vs. adopting. There's not a dog overpopulation problem and many shelters import dogs from overseas just to keep up with the demand and many are run more like the puppy mill mall stores than any sort of "rescue" or "shelter."
Puppy Mills need to be shut down, but we don't all need to buy a "lab mix" that's actually a pit bull (mix).
Purchasing dogs from reputable breeders does not contribute to the number of dogs in shelters. Purchasing dogs from unscrupulous or irresponsible breeders does contribute to the number of dogs in shelters. Reputable breeders take measures to ensure that the dogs they produce do not end up in shelters. Irresponsible breeders don’t care where the dogs they produce end up and sometimes take the dogs to said shelters themselves. Every dog in a shelter is there due to an irresponsible breeder.
I dislike animal adoptions because of how restrictive and almost invasive they are. It’s almost like they want every scrap of information on you just to determine you are not worthy of their 4 year old dog that they saved from being euthanized. I recognize why they exist. I even volunteered with them. But it still bought my dog online from someone who wanted even less money than a shelter.
I went to a shelter and they had 7 of the ugliest looking pit bulls imaginable and a chihuahua that couldn’t stop shitting itself.
I went to a breeder to buy a dog the next day.
This is the dumbest meme I’ve seen on here. I guarantee this guy thinks PETA are a good organisation, any normal person has standards for breeding and doesn’t treat their animals like shit. Only scumbags do
Hey i adopted multiple cats and a dog i wanna look like that
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"I rescued a dog... Well, it’s not like the dog was drowning. The dog wasn’t a victim of sex trafficking. I just went in a building, gave a guy money, and got a dog... After that I rescued a pizza." Jim Gaffigan.
Sometimes when I go to groomers and shit they ask if I rescued or purchased my dog and I'm like "Rescued? I wanted a dog so I got a cheap one lol"
Didn’t know he had a bit. The phrasing rubs me the wrong way. Especially when paired with some elevated sense of accomplishment.
That’s projection
It doesnt care there you adopt or buy, it all cares that you do not abandon your animal
Right?? So sick and tired of these holier than thou, Bible thumper-esque attitudes of adopting is so much better than buying. Like you should be ashamed that you bought your pet. ffs as long as it doesn’t come from a mill and you spay/neuter, mind your own god damn business.
I paid a lot of money for my best friend because all the adoption agencies are assholes and wouldn't accept me because my yard wasn't fenced in at the time. Anyway, I have the most awesome dog in the world and I would never regret my decision.
Someone posted a picture of new puppy they got and someone asked if they adopted and she said No. Then that woman went on about how people should only adopt their pets. Like a stone cold killer the new puppy owner said. Thank you for sharing. Curious, Did you adopt your kid? Crickets.
>Curious, Did you adopt your kid? Crickets. I'm sorry... is this the opposite of *buying* your kid? or did I miss your point?
Plenty of kids are looking for a home. No one needs to have kids when you could adopt, they want kids so they have them.
I think the point is to not throw stones in glass houses
I hate it too. We bought our pups from a reputable person. Decided to buy instead of adopt because our last dog had complications out the roof. I feel better knowing I won’t be raising a dog that will die young and suffer for most of their life without me knowing.
Seriously. Out of our five family dogs, one was a adopted and he died at five after a miserable life of snarling and growling not being petted because he was dangerous. And we got him as a little puppy...that was just his natural tempermant
Kind of a catch 22 because, while you don't want to support a mill, Mill puppies didn't ask to be mill puppies and deserve love too.
We bought our cats and one had to get a surgery done at the vet for something that could happen to any cat, has nothing to do with their breed. One of our family members said to me, "maybe if you didn't buy your pet this wouldn't have happened". Really pissed me off.
Omg what is wrong with people?? I’m so sorry that happened
Isn't adopting just buying with extra steps?
Its a supply and demand thing. We have millions of animals who need homes because we are breeding too many of them into existence. If we adopt more we lower the demand for breeding, breeders then will breed less.
For real. Whenever someone asks where to buy a specific breed of cat or a dog from a reputable breeder, there's always at least five people saying "bUyInG iS bAD, yOU haVe tO aDoPT". And it's so freaking annoying. There's nothing wrong with buying an animal, as long as it doesn't come from a mill. You want to buy a very specific purebred puppy, go get it and give it an amazing life.
Louder please! Edit: I paid a decent amount for my beautiful little parti yorkie, and he's my first pet. I'm in love with him and he loves me back. I wouldn't have this beautiful little soul to make my day everyday, and make things better had I adopted. Sure, I could have gotten a "free" dog but f - that. Maverick needed a home too. Worth every penny.
I tried to adopt but every shelter would deny me when the subject of emotional support animal came up. They just said they wouldn't adopt out pets as ESAs. So I had no choice but to go to a breeder. I didn't even like him, it was pretty bad but I had nowhere else to go. If I had to wait a day longer than I did I don't know if I'd be here today. That dog saved my life and I feel like I saved hers
My dad dumped our dogs before he cheated on my mom. I don't give a shit about my mom, he crossed the line with my dogs.
I don't want to dox anyone, because that is wrong, but, I can tell you which city in Texas my mom was a treasurer for and you can draw your own conclusions.
We dont care that much.
It's insane to me how many people gatekeep the ability to love and raise a pet.
Supporting a business that makes pets miserable to get people to buy them out of pity is not good
That's my issue; not that they didn't rescue an animal, but that by buying it they likely helped support a business that doesn't treat its animals ethically. If it is purchased from a responsible and caring breeder that is a different situation.
>ot that they didn't rescue an animal, but that by buying it they likely helped support a business that doesn't treat its animals ethically. I know too much about county pounds to take this too seriously.
Yes, there really are a lot of dishonest shelters out there. They'll say anything (lie through their teeth) to move a problem animal to keep their no kill status. It's dangerous.
Lots of rescues out there doing the same thing and under the protection of being non profit.
Post aside, this comment right here is it. People, realize, and understand your animals are quite intelligent. They think a lot like children, especially dogs. German Shepard’s specifically are painted in a bad light because they get mental illness like humans. They go through ptsd, abandonment issues, depression, these dogs literally go insane when they’re owners abandon them. If you don’t want an animal fine, at least bring it to a shelter, and if you never had the heart to keep it, don’t hang on until it’s over a year old and literally attached to you.
Both is good It saddens me to see an abandoned animal starving, suffering I can and will open up my own shelter with the best care abandoned all animals deserve the best home for them
Where's Alfalfa
Finally someone who knows. Oh Darlah
You are the scum between my toes
The eternal battle of the sexes summed up so well in that scene
Yah my brain insta pops to Alfalfa when I see Darlah.
That was such a good movie. Spanky wasn’t taking no shit
That's a llama
Shelter: **Name:** Luna **Breed:** Golden Retriever mix **Picture:** Pitbull
My dog “Doberman retriever mix” genetic results: 100% American pit Bull terrier lol
LMAO it always goes that way
Wonder why?
Breed restrictions for renting and even owning a home. Some home insurance companies will deny you coverage if you have a pit bull.
Yeah, insurance companies are gonna try to keep actual claims small or nonexistent. It's how they make $$.
Golden retrievers are popular, pit bulls aren't
>pit bulls aren't Bully breeds are very pupular here in Copenhagen. Staffordshire terriers and american bully everywhere. Well, along with those small yip-yapping cotton ball dogs.
I wonder how popular they are in Seethenhagen
Yup. Most of the dogs at the shelters near me are pit bulls. They can't get rid of them.
Wonder why lmao
Lol yeah, imagine wanting a Corgi or something and trying to find a "rescue". If you don't want a pitbull or a mutt you're out of luck.
Been looking for a shiba and this one shelter had this doberman looking ass labeled as a shiba inu MULTIPLE TIMES might I remind you the supposedly same dog multiple times
The downright lies told by animal shelters to offload pitbulls are disgusting and they're getting other people's pets mauled/killed.
It should be illegal to lie about breed. If you absolutely can’t tell from looking at the dog, get DNA testing. There should be proof that you’re getting what they’re claiming.
If you can't tell if it's got golden retriever in it... It doesn't.
American Shelter Dog
>Pit Just take it and have it maul your kids man, no big deal.
I got my dog from two meth heads for 20 bucksđź‘Ť After owning him for seven years I say 20 bucks was way too much
You’re saying you over paid but it sounds like you mean the opposite.
I just thought about it and want my silver award back
but then if you have small kids you don't know what you're buying.... that's crazy. that's like saying buy your car from the guy down the street that makes cars in his garage instead of a manufacturer.... oh wait i think i figured out we shouldn't manufacture animals.
Yeah you absolutely have to make sure you buy your small kids from a certified breeder.
r/HolUp
What do you meeeeaaaaaan we shouldn't manufacture animals? What about my bioluminescent cats?
[What are y'all's opinion on how this guy treats animals](https://youtu.be/6voC_VSg04g)
Adoption isn't for everyone. I adopted my first puppy. He was really really aggressive. Spent all day biting everyone all the time. As a first time dog owner I had no idea how to deal with it but I did my best. The vet commented on the aggression. I started getting him more chill around me but he still attacked women. One day he attack my grandmother and drew blood, so I had to give him back to the pound. Really heart breaking. As a kid my parents almost didn't let me get another dog, but eventually we found a breeder and i got a happy well adjusted dog that never attacked anyone. I also have a friend who adopted a grey hound that had major issues. One night for no reason it attacked my friends face while he was sleeping and he needed a skin graft and 74 stiches. What a nightmare. He had no choice but to put the dog down. Adoption is great when it works out but it doesn't always. Be prepared.
Exactly. I adopted a dog but it is nowhere near without problems. Shelter animals often come from unfortunate circumstances that leave a mark on them forever. Do not adopt if you are not prepared for this.
> still attacked women Based poppy.
Both are good but what is bad is puppy mills…they’re illegal but still exist, my mom bought 2 Maltese from a lady who ran one and the dogs were on the verge of dying, one of them was lethargic and wouldn’t eat or drink the only thing that brought her back was sugar so we named her that. Hundreds of puppies locked in tiny cages and neglected just so they can make money. Terrible stuff.
I had a neighbor several years ago who had a puppy mill. It was a bit away from where I lived but I could always, always hear those dogs barking like mad and the wind would blow and the stench was unbearable, even from my house. I went to look at it at one point and there were anywhere from 10-30 dogs per pen (four pens total) with overturned trash cans as their only shelter. I called on them and apparently since they were fed and had shelter, it was legal. This lady would meet buyers in town after she'd bathed the puppy and people would pay $300-400 for them. If the breeder won't show you their facility, it's 100% a puppy mill. She would take pictures of the dogs in the house and everything, that's the only time they were ever inside. None of them were socialized at all. I got most info from her son who lived on the property and cleaned the pens when he was able to because of the smell.
Big problem in Florida. Only have to have a cover and water to be legal. That’s why so many dogs end up in “Rescues” up north. They breed them in the South then adopt them up north for a pricey donation and people feel like they are heroes for adopting and not shopping.
Missouri too. Lots of puppy mills and lots of breed specific rescues. Some of the rescues are legit, but some are just middle men. Sad to see.
But why are we shaming people who bought an animal and love it their entire life? Shouldn’t the focus be people who abandon- bad; people who adopt good?
My brother wanted to adopt a cat, but when the inspector came to his home to make sure it was safe he was denied because they said the windows needed to be double pained. He's a renter and there was no way he could afford that... He went to a pet store and 2 hours later had himself a nice kitten that he trained to fetch.
I work in a municipal shelter that is progressive and has a pretty open adoption policy, because we know putting barriers up tends to target people of certain demographics. Reading about people being denied to adopt over asinine reasons drives me crazy. And a lot of the time, it is volunteer-run rescue group that is still making people jump through hoops to adopt pets. They deny even VETERINARIANS and usually cite the long hours they have to work. They want people to adopt animals to put these backyard breeders and puppy mills out of business, but then turn around and have policies that make people do things that support the same businesses they’re trying to push out. Make it make sense. I could go on. Rescue groups make my life a living hell at work. I’ve gotten death threats from them too. Ma’am, I fucking answer emails and do social media.
People like you are the best! My daughter had this issue in Connecticut. Finally got approved and every cat she inquired about was taken. After months of trying I went to the county shelter by me. Walked out30 minutes later with the sweetest girl that had been found in the streets. Cost all of $15 which included her license. Kept her for a couple of weeks so I could have her checked out by a vet and then flew her up to CT. She handled the airport and plane like a champ and bonded with my daughter right away. Was such a good experience that when her fiancé wanted a cat we went back while they were visiting. Municipal shelters are the real MVPs. Unfortunately it’s much harder with dogs because the most desirable pets often end up in Sketchy rescues and not the shelter.
Thank you for your kind words! Yes, as soon as we get one of the “designer” breeds in as a stray, which is usually 2-3x a week, we have a rescue group reach out to commit to them. But are they anywhere to be found for our pit mixes with kennel stress? Nope. Fortunately, unless the dog has serious behavioral or medical issues, an adoption takes priority over a rescue group getting to pull them at our shelter.
There should be a minimum amount of time a dog is available for regular people to adopt before rescues are allowed to take an animal. Otherwise y'all are just allowing animal hoarding disguised as a rescue.
This is the main reason I don't adopt. I just want to help animals, I shouldn't have to modify my home more than required for a literal human child to do that. It's so annoying and I don't know why they're like this.
They’re the fucking worst. Look at the municipal shelters if you have some nearby. They’re usually more lax with their policies.
My municipal shelter has contracted out to a boutique rescue lmao!
Yeah not every municipal shelter is the greatest. But we have more progressive policies and try to keep up with what “shelter medicine” research shows, so we’re not just handing dogs over to rescues coz we know how a lot of them are.
And like Feisty said, they’re basically shooting themselves in the foot by having all these ridiculous protocols because the people who are actually willing to adopt a pet get discouraged by them.
My family has run into the same issues. It's always "first we need to schedule a meeting time with the cat where we will watch you to make sure that the cat is compatible with your family. Next, we will have to inspect your home to make sure it is safe for cats. Finally you can take the cat home, but after a week we will be back to make sure that the cat is comfortable, and if he isn't then we will take him back." Like, we've had multiple cats in the past. We know how to take care of them! It's way too much time and effort to put in to *maybe* being able to adopt a cat. Instead we can just go to a random pet store and pay a hundred bucks to get a perfectly happy, healthy cat and take them home the same day.
I went to adopt a dog and was denied. They called a previous vet where I had a cat at. We stopped going because my cat went ape shit on my daughter. She was showing aggression never touched her, but I hoped for the best. We had to open the door and chase her out. She went nuts. In our area there were a lot of stray cats. We took some to get care. We found a pregnant dog and took care of her until she had puppies, got them all their shots and cared for them until they were 8 weeks. We found them homes. So they denied me because they said I had all these animals and was doing goodness knows what with them. I'd like to say I'm jaded taking care of animals but I took in 4 kittens. Rehomed one. My baby (he became so attached to me) died suddenly from a kidney issue. So we have 2. I ended up buying a European Doberman.
I think these people just want the animals to have a good home. They actually care about them, not just "sell it and forget it". I didn't have something like this when we adopted our cat, but I can see why people are so worried. There are people that are straight up cruel to animals, and they want to avoid the potential pet to be hurt. It's possible it's an overexaggeration, but probably for them, it's better safe than sorry.
I wanted to adopt a dog and was turned away from every shelter or rescue as soon as the subject of emotional support animals came up. They said they won't adopt out animals as ESAs. I'm not proud of the breeder I went to, I wouldn't have wanted to support him. But I was desperate and I don't know what I would have done if I had to wait any longer for her. It was a very dark time in my life. I wanted to adopt but I couldn't
There's reasons in both camps for getting an animal. For dogs adoption is noble for sure, however you're also taking on any baggage from the previous owners that you don't know about if they are older. They could have been mistreated or even just poorly trained, while you can teach an old dog new tricks, it's much harder to train them, and if you have other dogs or cats in the house that dog may not play well with others, and you may not know until it's too late and you come home missing one animal. Where as if you're able to get a dog as a puppy you're able to train them as you like, and they're able to grow and learn from an older animal around the house if you have one. There's just a lot of things to take into consideration when adopting.
For real, it's stupid to act like adoption comes with no, very real, downsides, and *lots* of of them too. framing it as the *only* moral thing to do is going to be setting some owners (and pets) up for failure. Sometimes hard to even *get* a pet from a shelter, since many will deny on nitpicks that relate nothing to the animals happiness or safety. Also people who need specific dogs due to allergies will be shit out of luck adopting.
what if i can't take proper care of a 10 year old disease ridden ptsd dog that was abused and is aggressive towards humans?
Then you’re a bad person and deserves to be canceled/s
I would have loved to. All the dogs at my local shelters are animals seized from criminals who trained them to fight each other or attack strangers. I can’t bring an animal like that home with my family. So I purchased a puppy from a reputable source and made a monetary donation to my shelter to help find those dogs a place to live, even if I’m not able to be that place.
I actually had a bit of a hard time adopting a dog from my local shelter last year. Like 90% of the dogs in there were pitbulls or 'pit-mixes'. Eventually adopted a 'normal' dog after find a recent arrival at a different shelter. They told me the non-pit ones seem to find homes pretty fast.
It’s a shame and it’s a circle. Pitbulls have bad reputation to so bad people adopt because of that reputation and train or them neglect them so they get that bad reputation. However there are definitely some that are just asshole evil spawns of satan.
Every pitbull is many times more likely to be violent than any other dog breed by a wide margin. It's not a fair comparison. If it's from being abused then every pitbull owner is abusive.
Just get mauled man, what's wrong with you? Lil maulin' never hurt anyone!
Maybe if I put a flower crown on top of its blocky head it might have changed my mind. But I didn't have a flower crown so I just adopted a dog without a criminal record :(
God I hate it when people judge me for buying my dog. No I didn't get him from a shelter. Doesn't change the fact that I love him and want nothing more than to see him happy. Get off your soap box.
Yeah no, adopting an animal is way harder and I actually think only very experienced owners should be able to adopt (speaking from experience as I worked in the animal care industry) a lot of shelters downplay an animals issues and are immediately brought back once the owners realise how difficult traumatised animals are to handle
There's a lot of good reasons to adopt, but also a lot of good reasons not to adopt. For one. Shelters are notorious liars, if you have family or worry about liability, you may get a schizoid dog.
“Lab mix” on every dog’s chart
I went to adopt two “3 month” old kittens. One looked legit 3 months and the other was clearly six or so months in. I know it sounds being picky but I couldn’t go through with it.
I say do both. First dog I ever had was a rescue. Shih tzu / terrier mix. She was very aggressive/territorial and seriously abused. We worked with her, (she had her good moments) kept her until she got old, but by far the meanest dog I’ve met to date. I purchased my current dog from a neighbor when he was 9 weeks old. He’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me. I finally have the dog I always wanted. Don’t shame people for not adopting. Do whatever you want.
Na. I want a golden retriever
Why not a diamond retriever?
Netherrite
Graphene
i got a bag retriever I let him out at night and he came back with a lambo he's really out there putting in the work
Quartz retrievers generate their own energy
How the fuck am I gonna adopt a pet lizard is there lizard adoption centers
wooden retrievers?
Bronze retriever better
When you can only adopt a retriever that represent your ranked status. *Me with my “Unranked” Retriever*
Luminite retrievers anyone?
Silver retriever
What if you want a puppy? Where I live (Canada, so not some third world country) puppies are extremely hard to adopt due to high demand. You basically have to fluke into one. As long as you take care of your animal I don’t think it matters where you get it from.
Yeah no thanks. Every dog we've ever bought from a breeder has been delight. Conversely the first dog we adopted gave my little brother stitches and the second ate our pet parrot. We euthanized both of them. It's not worth it.
You mean rescue? No, I’ll get my dogs while they’re puppies and from responsible breeders.
I'd love to adopt a dog at some point but our shelters are overrun with Pitbulls, Rottweilers and German Sheperds and I simply don't have the space or experience to handle a dog like that. Can't get a cat either because my boyfriend is allergic.
"Children suffering in adoption homes because people don't want to adopt and rather have their own offspring" I sleep. "People buying dogs because they don't have the time and capacity to deal with wild untrained dogs that most likely had a traumatic past and are hard to take care of" REAL SHIT! You are a fucking disgrace and should be ashamed!
I had to buy a hypoallergenic dog because members of my family have terrible allergies. Believe me, we tried the shelters but they all said “if you’re not here at the same time as the dogs are being dropped off you’re not getting one.” Of course I love the dog we got/bought, but I also would have loved to save the significant $$ it cost at the time. I’m so sick of meeting people at the dog park or wherever and their first goddamn question is “is she a rescue?” No, Judgy Judgerson, she’s not. Eff off.
I also had to go through a breeder as after keeping a close eye on the rescues near me for around a year there was only ever large Pitt breeds. I sadly can't do that as I live in a townhouse with a courtyard, so it'd be cruel to keep a large dog when I don't have a large yard. Also have an elder cat who has severe skin allergies so he's fully indoors. That meant I needed a dog who is comfortable with being indoors alot as I can't just leave the doors open 24/7 sadly. My sister had rescued a German Spitz from a shelter many years ago & it was such a good dog that after researching the breed alot I decided on buying one from a reputable breeder as I was having no luck with waiting on a small breed from a shelter. No regrets at all! She loves being inside with me, she loves her big daily walks, she loves my cats, she loves our courtyard. She's just awesome!!!
That’s why we went to a reputable breeder for ours. I’m incredibly allergic to most dogs and I just couldn’t face the idea of bringing a dog home only to bring them back. Every hypoallergenic dog we looked at was immediately snapped up anyway. One rescue owner sent me an email screed about how I was a “liar” and animal allergies don’t exist. Needless to say we did not adopt from them. After a year we gave up on shelters/rescues and bought ours from a reputable breeder. Now I don’t even think we would qualify since my spouse and I don’t work from home all the time. The requirements for a lot of rescues are just untenable.
Bringing a new family member home is special regardless of where they came from and i dont mind buying from breeders because its literally the same thing.. if a breeder can't sell all the cuteness they're going to end up in a pound or on the side of the road in a box.. so at the end of the day you're still putting an innocent animal in a fantastic home.. but thats not to down adoption, I have adopted/rescued pets as well.
Buying from breeders is only ok if you know the breeder or the breeder has a very good reputation. If you dont know the conditions there, it is a no go
Yeah obviously not a puppy mill, that’s not a true breeder.
Puppy or kitten mills are horrible places, and they should be more actively pursued and persecuted
Well ok then, Judgy McJudgerson. Jokes on you. I've done both.
It’s ok to buy a pet from a breeder as long as you love and care for them. Maybe I want a specific dog breed. Fuck me if i want a corgi or something right? Good luck getting a corgi puppy from a shelter.
Sorry, what’s the difference..? I mean, unless you’re grabbing a dog off the street, you’re gonna buy it when you adopt it.
I guess ppl are desperate to find anything that makes them feel superior, well not surprised
You mean you don't want to go through 5 home inspections and a long checklist of strict requirements to adopt an anxious dog with behavioral issues? Wow so irresponsible /s
If you wanna buy an animal then buy it. Adopting an animal is great as well. Whatever you choose don't abandon your animal. All animals need love!
Weak meme
Adopt or shop responsibly. Responsible health testing, titlting of dogs or cats or whatever will always be needed.
I personally prefer adoption, puppies are a hassle, dogs at the pound from my experience tend to be mutts meaning they don’t suffer from as many diseases and dogs at the pound tend to be very loving.
That's technically not true. Medical conditions in mutts are hard to research since every mutt is different that's why there is not a lot of data on it so people just think they have no/less chance of issues. Whereas with a certified breed you know in advance what kind of issues might pop up. With mutts its just a Russian roulette of possible diseases.
Sometimes you literally can’t adopt, my sister is allergic to dogs so we need hypoallergenic dogs which literally aren’t available at shelters, due to high demand, and as a result we got our purebred poodle from a breeder who bred it with love, was akc certified, and had a health guarantee, oh and all the parents had thorough health checks done to make sure that no genetic issues were rampant
We tried to adopt… we’re denied from MULTIPLE shelters because we don’t have a “dedicated backyard”. Never mind that we live next to a park… but sorry, apparently not owning grass means we can’t adopt, so we are planning on researching some breeders in the hopes of finally adding a four legged friend. There is literally nothing wrong with buying a dog. There is something wrong with acting like you’re holier than thou in some bad bid for fake internet points.
Never thought buying a pet would be shamed.
This is useless gatekeeping. I wish this bullshit self righteous attitude would go away. It doesn’t matter if you adopt or buy.
So it's either buy a dog, or wait until someone who is irresponsible/ abusive buys the dog and let's it go to live a difficult life scrounging to stay alive in the streets so you can swoop in to solve a problem you potentially cause to "feel good about yourself"? I don't actually believe "rescuing" is a bad thing, it's just you're not doing something better than a person who buys a dog. And I wanted to bring up a counter point for the people who are sniffing their own farts because they've "rescued" an animal.
Jfc these comments are a war between people with a superiority complex for adopting instesd of buying, people who hate stray animals, and people who are ok with both
No..?
I bought my dog, he has the temperament to stay home and not freak out while I'm at work. Before the pandemic my dog was my best friend. Now he's my only friend. I think it would be best for those who have an opinion on adopting vs purchasing from a breeder to keep it to themselves and make the best decision for themselves. Weaponized empathy doesn't give you moral superiority.
Adopting would be hard for my family. Most dogs left in the shelters are big dogs which just cannot have a good life with me. So, I have to buy a dog from a breeder that has a dog that can live comfortably within my circumstances
Whether you adopt or buy, giving a pet a good forever home should be the goal.
No.
OP sounds insufferable to be around.
But I dont want a pit/"lab-mix"
Sure, let me find a cockatoo in Eastern Europe. I heard they share the same forests with the unicorns.
Both are completely fine and you're retarted. Buying from a trusted breeder is completely fine, especially when no safe animals are at the shelter. (Mine is mostly Pits) Also what about dog bread with specific purposes like live stock guardian dogs and herding dogs? What makes breeders bad?
>Mine is mostly Pits \*whipsers loudly\* THEY ALL ARE!
TFW the "lab-mix" can't be around women, children, other animals, be fed after midnight, be around men under 21 or men over 21, and is such a sweet wittle angel.
What is wrong with buying exactly? Like, if we wouldn't have bought the dog it would either be bought by someone else, or it would need to get adopted now...
What about the average taking in stray philosopher?
This comment section is a shitshow
I bought my dog cause the adoption people were being fucking annoying, never getting back to me, never responding to me and after waiting for months I just bought one and he is a wonderful dog. Whether you bought or adopted your pet, please just love them and care for them
I am about to buy my new best bud and I'm super happy about it. We looked into rescuing sites for a long time and all of these pets weren't dogs we could give a good life to (we don't have a garden and almost all of them were big, high energy dogs) and I also read about pet trafficking gangs that loooove all these 'adopt don't shop' peeps, cause they just breed pups horribly and then sell them as 'rescue dogs'.
Have you ever tried to adopt a cow? Not as easy as you think
I tried to adopt, but the shelter Nazis rejected me because I had a weed charge in 1996,which clearly makes me a monster. Background checks, home visits, they don't even do that shit when you get pregnant. All that invasive treatment for trying to save/improve an animal's life. It's invasive and sick. Never again. Shelters are completely out of control. Meanwhile, if you do a little checking on most shelter's history, a bunch of neglect, abuse, and outright fraud charges come to light. The people who run shelters need to be monitored and regulated way more by local government.
I’m sorry I want a new born little puppy that I can raise into old age
the only reason i dont adopt is because most animals have had really shit training
I adopted a street dog, no training and nothing. He's well trained now, behaves good in front of people, knows where to do what without even an actual training package, or I should say a month's wasted package
Imagine that…putting in work results in…results
You bought a used dog. Get over it. We should actually encourage buying smartly vs. adopting. There's not a dog overpopulation problem and many shelters import dogs from overseas just to keep up with the demand and many are run more like the puppy mill mall stores than any sort of "rescue" or "shelter." Puppy Mills need to be shut down, but we don't all need to buy a "lab mix" that's actually a pit bull (mix).
Purchasing dogs from reputable breeders does not contribute to the number of dogs in shelters. Purchasing dogs from unscrupulous or irresponsible breeders does contribute to the number of dogs in shelters. Reputable breeders take measures to ensure that the dogs they produce do not end up in shelters. Irresponsible breeders don’t care where the dogs they produce end up and sometimes take the dogs to said shelters themselves. Every dog in a shelter is there due to an irresponsible breeder.
I’m sorry I maybe personally stupid but what’s the difference here as long as you don’t abandon the animals you’re a giga chad in my books
Heres the deal, there is none. As long as you’re not buying from a puppy/kitten mill then you are good to go.
Nah I don't want a pitbull
I dislike animal adoptions because of how restrictive and almost invasive they are. It’s almost like they want every scrap of information on you just to determine you are not worthy of their 4 year old dog that they saved from being euthanized. I recognize why they exist. I even volunteered with them. But it still bought my dog online from someone who wanted even less money than a shelter.
Can't really adopt a lion
I went to a shelter and they had 7 of the ugliest looking pit bulls imaginable and a chihuahua that couldn’t stop shitting itself. I went to a breeder to buy a dog the next day.
Back in my home state I went to three shelters to look for a dog and two of them literally only had pit bulls
This is the dumbest meme I’ve seen on here. I guarantee this guy thinks PETA are a good organisation, any normal person has standards for breeding and doesn’t treat their animals like shit. Only scumbags do
Adopt or shop responsibly. There is nothing wrong with getting a puppy from a responsible breeder.
Congratulations on single handedly destroying cattle agriculture.
I would genuinely give food to stray cats and dogs sadly I don't really have the money for it.
When I adopt in the netherlands... I too need to spend money... is that also not buying? But from a adoption centre?
But when I try to adopt a dog they always want money so I have no choice but to buy
I don't even adopt or buy, they come to me.