| Are you thinking of getting a new pet? Have you ever | | | | big move, or they are simply too busy to adequately |
| considered pet adoption? Adopting a pet is a | | | | provide care for a pet. 4. You won't be supporting |
| wonderful option for adding a canine friend into the | | | | puppy mills Many pets that are sold in pet stores or |
| family. Here are 5 simple reasons why you should | | | | newspaper ads sometimes come from puppy mills. |
| choose pet adoption: 1. You'll save a life Saving a life | | | | Puppy mills are mass dog-breeding businesses that |
| just may be one of the most rewarding actions in a | | | | are harmful to the health of their bred puppies. These |
| person's life. Some pet shelters have to put down | | | | facilities sometimes house up to several hundred dogs |
| animals if they do not get adopted. If you choose to | | | | at a time, thus compromising the health and well-being |
| adopt a pet from an animal shelter or animal adoption | | | | of a precious puppy. By adopting a pet from a shelter |
| agency, you are not only saving a precious animal's life, | | | | or a pet adoption agency, you are not supporting |
| you are also greatly increasing its quality of life. 2. You'll | | | | these often inhumane businesses. 5. You'll have a large |
| save money When you adopt a pet, you are actually | | | | selection Because pet adoption agencies and animal |
| saving a lot of money. Animals that have been placed | | | | shelters have many pets, there is a wide selection for |
| in shelters or taken to animal adoption agencies are | | | | you to choose from. To make pet shopping easier on |
| almost always spayed or neutered and vaccinated. | | | | potential parents, many pet agencies and shelters |
| Those preliminary, but necessary procedures add up | | | | have websites that allow people to search for possible |
| when all is said and done. Also, it is relatively | | | | pets by their age, sex, size, and breed. This enables |
| inexpensive to adopt a pet from an agency or shelter | | | | families to search from the comfort of their own |
| in comparison to purchasing dogs or cats from a local | | | | homes; the hassle of going to noisy and overwhelming |
| pet store. 3. You'll receive a healthy pet As was | | | | shelters and agencies is eliminated. The satisfaction |
| mentioned above, pets from shelters and adoption | | | | you will acquire when you adopt a pet is like no other; |
| agencies are almost always spayed or neutered, and | | | | you will have received a healthy pet, you will save |
| have received their vaccinations as well. This ensures | | | | money, you will be supporting a healthy and just cause, |
| the health and happiness of your future pet. Also, in | | | | you will get the perfect pet for your family, and you will |
| contradiction to popular belief, many pets who have | | | | have saved a life. Adopting a pet has lifelong benefits |
| been placed in shelters have not been mistreated or | | | | that you will not regret. Give these animals a second |
| "done something wrong." Many pets have been taken | | | | chance by allowing them to join your loving family. |
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