Thank you Cattitude!!!!!! Very well put. If I were a dog in a shelter, I'd rather be put down than have to go live in a bad home. And I'm not talking about a home where the owner is gone for 8 hours during the day to work. I mean be real...most owners can't be with their pet all day. I am not with my dog all day, but I don't feel bad because when I am with him, I give him lots of attention. Animals are in shelters because of ignorant backyard breeders..."oops, my dog went out and got knocked up again." I saw an ad in the classifieds a few months ago that said something like "my slutty dog got pregnant again." I got so mad....do you really think dogs can help it? How about you get off your lazy azz and spay or neuter your pet! You wouldn't believe how many people let their animals run around having litter after litter...then they complain about having to take care of all the babies. If irresponsible breeders would knock it off, then shelters wouldn't be overrun with animals. I would MUCH rather go to the shelter and pay the fee to adopt a healthy animal that has already been altered than to go to some backyard breeder that can't even spell the breed of the animal properly. Goodness knows that the animal is probably inbred with all kinds of health problems. I would never ever buy a puppy or kitten from a pet shop either. Then you're just giving business to puppy/kitten mills where the poor animals are kept in cages and only let out when it's time for them to breed again.
I could go on and on....but the point is, when you adopt a dog, you're saving its life. I read a saying once...something like "When you adopt a dog, the world doesn't change...but the world changes for that dog."
You know, I mentioned it earlier, but if you can't deal with the process of adopting a dog, can you really deal with taking care of that animal for the rest of its life? I have adopted several dogs from the Tri-County shelter, and it was a piece of cake.
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These tards do this with adopting children, too. My girlfriend went through hell and back before she was finally able to adopt her daughter. Like the kid is so much better off at a state run home.
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OMG, Vrai, do you really think adopting a child should be taken lightly?? Let me tell you, a child would me MUCH better off in a state home than to be adopted to people who would abuse it in any way. I think people should have to go through a pretty thorough process before they're allowed to adopt a child. On the same note, sometimes I think people should have to do the same thing to even have their own child!
