Adopt dont shop; others
I want to talk about adopting animals.
This is so far away from my regular content, but I feel like this is a much needed discussion before I go sleep tonight. I wont make this very long. But here are some reasons from my side why you should get animals from shelters and not "buy" them.
- Every year, around 12 million dogs and cats and kittens/puppies are euthanized. (That means they are killed painlessly because there are too many animals and too less people to care for them).
- Animals are animals. They will love you no matter where you got them from.
- They are not "broken". Many of them ended up there because of something like a divorce or their family moving. Seeing how attached animals get....
- If you want to look at it from a cost point of view, it will actually cost you less because the adoption price actually covers a lot.
- Because your pet is not "manufactured". Yes. This happens.Link. Oh and they are really cruel. Still want to promote it?
- Because you saved a life. 
- Oh and if you adopt one pet, it helps more who now have a better chance at getting adopted.
- Most of them are already housetrained so that takes care of it
- We hurt animals so much. Rarely do you hear of any of them hurting a human back without being provoked. So why do we continue?
- Others will follow your example.
- Show people that there is nothing wrong with a pet who needs a little more love.
- You will give an animal who has received nothing but hatred, a life and a home. And you will have changed its whole world.
I will get a shelter puppy when I get one. I hope you do the same.
Here is a dog who needed a little more love. Just watch it :)