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I unironically feel superior having adopted wounded and hungry animal
I don’t know why I did it as I am not really the best person in my mind. It almost ended up badly anyway but like it all straightened out in the end after some… conflicts
It is still a wild animal though compared to all the other pets I seen. Like a small lion in 100 sq m apartment. I have no power or control over him.
I may give in one day and turn him into a pie
This is my actual real life human daughter. I adopted her from the RSPCA. She has a condition called felineitis, so please dont bully her. Also she's nonverbal and extremely sensitive to stimulus, so be patient with her.
Cat 1: adopted from someone on Reddit who had taken in a preggo stray.
Cat 2: adopted from a shelter, was found in a hoarder house.
Cat 3: adopted from a shelter, was found in a Penske truck.
Foster cat: appeared on our window ledge, theory is she was dumped with her litter outside the pet shop nearby.
I'm anticipating more rescues in our future because people are selfish assholes who think spaying is cruel, but are totally ok with overpopulating the world with cats that don't receive adequate care and often die lonely.
High as balls cat 3 (Fran) after her gabapentin fueled vet day.
Don’t act like there aren’t cat breeders selling Persians and Sphinxes for thousands.
Don't forget Ragdolls
My friends wife bought one of those she would never tell us how much they paid for it. They ended up offering it to me for free a few years later but I already had a cat that was not receptive to the idea. It was a really cool cat though. It would play fetch with you.
All my dogs have been mutts that we adopted off the streets as puppies.
there are also purebred cats that cost 4-5 figures.
That to me just tells how many cats there are on the streets
I heard a statistic some years ago, have no source so they may have just pulled it from thin air, that there is a 14 to 1 ratio of cats to people in the US.
Ah so you’re admitting your pet is trash.
I kid I kid, just highly allergic to cats and don’t miss them clawing my leather furniture when I had one and found out why I could not breathe and broke out in hives for like a year/2 of my life
Pretty sure the shelter paid us to take our current cat lol. Or at least all the chipping and medical fees were waived. She'd been there for months and months and had already had one failed adoption.
She's ornery as hell and never wants us to pet her but somehow mysteriously happens to be in the same room as us all the time. And she sleeps on us at night. Deep down it's clear she loves us in her own cat way. 🥲
Also despite her...odd... temperament she is a beautiful cat! No clue why anyone would pay for an expensive breed when there are so many cuties like ours just wasting away in shelters.
for bragging rights
Our shelter did this, but they didn't fix the cats. When we went back to get them fixed at the shelter, they said they'd kill our cats if we didn't pay them.
It's almost like even the god of blood is unhappy about this proceedings and committed against the sacrifice of felines. Powerful stuff.
It's because she's got all them teeth and no toothbrush
every dog I've owned since adulthood was a rescue. they're the best dogs. the only thing you get with a purebred is a known history of disease and inbreeding ailments.
#AdoptDontShop and don't support breeders/puppy mills.
No such thing as a "pure bred" dog anyways.
Plus, mutts have far fewer health problems. "Pure breeds" are largely inbred and products of incest.
Got my dog for $30 bucks out of the back of a truck in a grocery store parking lot.
Not good either. These are often bred in terrible conditions, separated from their moms way too early (to get that extra cuteness) and may have unchecked health problems.
and may have unchecked health problems.
That part's for sure. They were just some farm dogs.
Unless you're putting your animal in shows, why tf would anyone care about having a pure breed? Get a mutt that resembles what you want, and you should be good to go (and have a healthier animal).
Some people allergic, some breed made for those people to not get reaction. Maybe mixing make problem worse again?
That's kind of niche tbh and about the only way of breeding that sounds healthy to me. Not based on impossible aesthetic standards, I mean.
it's also not true. hypoallergenic dogs/cats are just marketing nonsense designed to appeal to rich weirdos who want to spend five figures on dog because they think nothing has any value if they pay less than that.
Aha. Well at least the idea behind it is somewhat better, didn't know about the feasibility.