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Adopted pets have
had their shots
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Shelters often
have information about a dog’s temperament
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Adopting a pet
frees space in the shelter for more dogs
When you adopt a dog
you can be sure that the staff at the shelter has had the dog
examined by a vet for diseases and parasites and that the dog
has had its shots. This is not always true of dogs acquired by
other means such as kids giving away “free puppies” from a box
in front of the local grocery store or PetsMart.
The dogs at a shelter
are not just strays and often are turned in to the shelter by
former owners for various reasons. When this happens, the
shelter collects as much information about the dog as possible,
including whether its good with children, how much it barks, how
playful or obedient it is, whether its housebroken, and other
important details. While it’s true that this information is only
as good as the honesty of the former owner, most of the time it
is fairly accurate.
Animal shelters
provide a valuable service to the community that they serve by
keeping the streets as free of stray animals as possible.
Because many of them do this with little or no public funding or
governmental support, they are very limited in the number of
dogs they can have in the shelter at any given time. The only
way that they can bring in more stray animals is if they remove
the ones they currently have. This is done through adoption or
euthanasia. Obviously they would prefer to have the dogs adopted
rather than killed. Adopting a dog could very well save its life
and allows the shelter to bring in another dog in its place. |
