Please spay and neuter your pets!
Spaying and neutering can help pets be healthier
and -- yes! -- happier. And there are already so many
kittens and puppies born
every day who desperately need safe and loving homes.
Many animal rescue organizations -- probably some in your area -- have low-cost ways to help you have your pets spayed or neutered, if money's tight. Ask!
Please be part of the solution, not the problem.
Many animal rescue organizations -- probably some in your area -- have low-cost ways to help you have your pets spayed or neutered, if money's tight. Ask!
Please be part of the solution, not the problem.
Adopt from shelters & rescue groups
Your local rescue organizations and animal shelters
ALWAYS have wonderful animals, who need homes because
the human people in charge of their world have let
them down.
Bonus Points
Kittens and puppies are virtually irresistible (as they
should be!). Still, adopting an older cat or dog can
offer its own special rewards.
After all, how often in life do you get a chance to right a wrong, or mend a broken heart? A pet who has grown up trusting and loving a person, only to be turned in to a shelter because he's no longer "convenient" -- or to be mystifyingly and frighteningly abandoned -- is an animal who has been badly wronged.
Adopting an adult animal (especially a senior pet, if that's possible for you) is a direct way to fix a broken world for that animal. You can give the gift of a loving and truly committed home that heals the betrayal, that replaces bewilderment with happiness. (That makes you a hero, as far as I'm concerned.)
Did I mention getting to skip the part where incorrigible puppies chew your socks, your slippers, your furniture? Being allowed to avoid the often tedious and somewhat messy chore of housebreaking? Not having to be decorated for months with dozens of tiny scratches from mountaineering kittens (oh, those needle-like kitten claws)? More bonus points!
After all, how often in life do you get a chance to right a wrong, or mend a broken heart? A pet who has grown up trusting and loving a person, only to be turned in to a shelter because he's no longer "convenient" -- or to be mystifyingly and frighteningly abandoned -- is an animal who has been badly wronged.
Adopting an adult animal (especially a senior pet, if that's possible for you) is a direct way to fix a broken world for that animal. You can give the gift of a loving and truly committed home that heals the betrayal, that replaces bewilderment with happiness. (That makes you a hero, as far as I'm concerned.)
Did I mention getting to skip the part where incorrigible puppies chew your socks, your slippers, your furniture? Being allowed to avoid the often tedious and somewhat messy chore of housebreaking? Not having to be decorated for months with dozens of tiny scratches from mountaineering kittens (oh, those needle-like kitten claws)? More bonus points!
