Top 8 Reasons to Adopt from an Animal Shelter

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All animals at a shelter are in need of a second chance. They have been lost, given up or abandoned. They are all unwanted and helpless. You are giving them a new life in a loving home. 2. You help break the cycle of pet overpopulation.

There are not enough homes for all the animals that are born every year. Adopting from a shelter helps weaken the pet overpopulation cycle. Each year millions of dogs, cats, puppies and kittens are euthanized because there are simply not enough homes for them. 3. You help stop cruelty in mass breeding facilities.

Commercial pet-breeding facilities and backyard breeders produce millions of animals for sale in pet stores and through newspaper ads. Often known as puppy and kitten mills, these facilities repeatedly and shamelessly impregnate female dogs and cats that spend their entire lives in cages without any human companionship.

These unfortunate animals are often in intolerable environments, forced to produce litter upon litter, and are destroyed after they become unprofitable assets. Adopting a shelter animal means you don’t support such cruel practices. 4. You take advantage of adopting an adult animal.

Adult pets are great! Often they are already housetrained and some can even “sit” or “stay.” You won’t have to deal with the “puppy phase” or the “kitten phase” which means less of that youthful energy such as biting, chewing, clawing, etc.

You will be able to see the personality of the adult animal and won’t have to wait to see what you get. 5. You get a lifetime resource with shelter employees and volunteers.

People who work at the shelter will be a great resource to help you find information or resources for your pet. These amazing staff members work with animals every day and have a wealth of information on many different issues that might arise. 6. You support a valuable charity and community institution.

When you adopt a pet from a shelter, you assist a not-for-profit organisation, but also send a message to others who will be asking you for years to come where you obtained your adorable pet. Shelters improve the community by mandating that adopted animals be spayed or neutered. This requirement diminishes chances that more unwanted animals will enter the world. 7. You pay less.

Low adoption fees (which cover a portion of our shelter’s costs) are much less than the cost of buying a purebred puppy or kitten sold for profit. 8. You encourage others to adopt animals from shelters.

When your friends ask where you got your amazing pet, you can tell them you got it “at the shelter.” Your adoption may encourage others to do the same.

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