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Rescue Rather Than Purchase | By: CBW Corporate Marketing
Animal shelters across the United States are quickly becoming overcrowded and underfunded. Tough economic times are forcing families to give up their pets due to a lost job or the realization that the time, money or energy to take care of a pet does not exist. More than half of the animals in shelters are euthanised because they are unable to find a home.
While people still make the decision to purchase a pet from a store or breeder, there are many advantages to rescuing a pet from an animal shelter.
Benefits of rescuing rather than purchasing
- Adopting from shelters reduces the demand for puppy mills.
- Puppy mills are large dog breeding operations that sacrifice the health and safety of animals in order to turn a bigger profit. Puppy mills supply many pet stores or sell animals on the internet. Problems with puppy mills include over breeding, inbreeding, poor quality food and care and overcrowding.
- The money you spend at shelters goes towards taking care of other abandoned animals.
- Shelters take in hungry, abandoned or homeless animals and give them a place to sleep, food, vaccinations and check ups.
- Many shelters offer services to help make the adoption process as easy as playing fetch.
- Among other services, shelters offer advice about pet parenting, how to choose the right breed for your family, how to train your new dog and classes about dog behavior.
- Best value
- Most animal shelters are non-profit organizations so adoption fees are considerably less expensive than purchasing a pet from a pet store or breeder.
- Working with a shelter gives you a higher chance of adopting a pet that has been vaccinated, dewormed and spayed or neutered.
When the time is right for you to adopt a pet be sure to consider rescuing an animal from a shelter in order to help ensure more animals have the chance to find a home in the future.
To see how Camp Bow Wow is working to find great families for homeless animals, please visit the Bow Wow Buddies page.

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