Why should you adopt a dog?

Posted by Holly
Nov-4-2011
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There are a tons of very good reasons to adopt a dog instead of buying one from a pet store. There’s also very good reason as to why you should buy an older dog, rather then a puppy. Here’s just a few of those great reasons for

Giving an animal a second chance. If you adopt an animal, you’re giving them a second change to have a good life. There are many reasons why animals end up in shelters, but you can help them get out. There are kill-shelters out there, where if an animal doesn’t get adopted within a certain amount of time, the shelter puts them to sleep. How fair is that? So, if you adopt an animal, you’re saving their life.
Puppy mills send their dogs to pet stores! You see a cute dog in a pet store? Well, most likely, that dog came from a puppy mill. Puppy mills, in a few sentences, are a place where dogs are forced to breed. They don’t take care of the animals at all. Most times, when the animals go to a shelter, their health is in great danger. The puppy mill owners keep the dogs cooped up in small cages, with no sanitary water, or even space. It’s dirty and the puppies, as well as the moms, are not taken care of at all. If you go to a shelter, you’re saving a life and giving a dog a sanitary place to live. If you buy from a pet store, you’re supporting puppy mills. So don’t do it.
Helping an animal out. Let’s say there’s a puppy at the shelter. That puppy has special needs, such as a certain heart problem where he needs special medicine. And let’s also say that the family that had him, couldn’t afford him because of that, because let’s face it, things are expensive. So they take him to a shelter. Now, they certainly didn’t want to give their puppy up – but they didn’t want him to suffer. Now, you come along. You see him. You can care for him and give him the medicine and such that he needs to survive, so you do. Now, he has an enjoyable life. He has another nice home, and gets his medication.
Your questions answered. Another nice thing about adopting a pet, you know how big he/she is going to get. You know the type of medical attention he/she needs. It’s pretty much like you’re walking into a dogyou’ve known your whole life. You know about them. When you go to a pet store and buy them, who knows if their lying about the type of breed? If it’s coming from a puppy mill, those people just want money. They don’t care if they say the dog is a poodle and it’s actually a poodle and a lab. So you’re buying a dog, thinking it’s going to be small, but in reality, it’s going to be as big as a lab.
Not high-maintenance. Yes, we’ve all had puppies and we know how hard it can be to take care of. They’re not potty trained and they are not yet trained at all, as a matter of fact. They’ll pretty much brand new and you need to teach them to go outside, to not chew everything in sight, how to sit, stay, and pretty much, everything else. Where as if you adopt an older dog, then you don’t have to teach them everything.
They’re equally cute! Puppies aren’t any cuter then older dogs. They’re equally cute. So save a life. Adopt a shelter dog!