1) Adopting saves lives. Every time a shelter or rescue animal finds a “furever” home, there’s a spot that opens up to safely, temporarily house and care for another unwanted, abused, neglected, or lost animal giving them a chance to find a “furever” home too!

2) Most shelters and rescues ensure the health of the animal before sending them home with you! That means you don’t have to worry about spaying, neutering, vaccinations or giving other immediate medical care.  Even better? All of this is basically always included in your adoption fee!!!! Of course, not all animals are perfectly healthy even after receiving veterinary care before their adoption. Temperaments, behaviors and medical issues are all assessed so that the right care giver is chosen according to the animals needs, this way the adopters are already made aware of any concerning issues.

3) Quite simply, you save money when you adopt from a shelter or rescue! Buying a pet from a pet store or a breeder can be significantly more costly. When you adopt from your local shelter or rescue, you pay an adoption fee, then spend the rest of your money on toys, treats, vacations together and maybe even some high fashion pet couture 😉

4) You’ll be helping to shut down backyard breeders and sales of animals in pet stores!  Backyard breeders will continue to operate until people stop purchasing from them.  Most of these animals are kept in small cages, and live in cruel conditions.  The sales pitches by the operators can be so strong that most people easily believe their phony happy stories, and they’re so secretive it’s rare to get a glimpse of the circumstances in which the animals are actually forced to live in. There are millions of pets in shelters and rescues looking for families to take them home. Save a life instead of contributing to these horrific practices!

5) IT FEELS SO GREAT TO KNOW YOU HAVE SAVED A LIFE! Once you adopt for the first time, you most likely won’t go back to pet stores or breeders.  Years after bringing home our 2 dogs from rescues, my husband and I still stare at them daily in awe. We realize that their fate could have been drastically different had the rescues not stepped in to save their lives, and had they not wound up in our hands.  We are grateful for them every single day, just as they are for us. We proudly tell their stories, and about where they came from, and the excitement and the love is contagious! So much so that others have run to adopt their very own animals from shelters or rescues in a hurry. Get in on the fun, save a life, adopt don’t shop! 

 

XO

Stefania