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You can negotiate with breeders? FML!

I'm ashamed to say I paid 100 bucks a gram for a 300 grams scrappy tiny thingy. Ashamed but unapologetic

My best girl was a rescue. She's legitimately one of the best behaved and cutest dogs. Did we get lucky? Fuck yeah. Would I ever buy from a breeder? Probably not. There are rescue organizations for specific breeds if that's what you want/need.

I asked a colleague once if they’d rescued their pet & got a very very light shaming, something about how not every living situation is right for the majority of shelter animals. IDK if it was about allergies or what, but… oops.

My dog showed up on our doorstep like, hi I'm your dog. So we were like, OK cool.

That's a shit zoo.

I spent $25 to adopt my cat from my local humane society and now he’s my best friend in the whole world.

Just shows how much stray cats and cat breeding is much more of an issue than stray dogs and dog breeding.

I have a feeling OP posted this as bait, so people would post cute pics of their rescued dogs.

And I commend this effort. Moar doggos pls.

Fish a cat out of a dumpster with a piece of shrimp on a string, it's not hard

I have animals pay me for the privilege of being my pets.

Reminds me of a joke:

-"Yesterday, I went to a zoo and the only exhibition they had was a single dog."

-"Oh wow, that sounds horrible!"

-"Yeah, it was a shitzu!"

The adoption fee at my shelter is $150 for dogs. Dogs are chipped, fixed, and up-to-date on vaccines. The day my wife and I adopted our guy, they were taking a hundred bucks off the adoption fee for large dogs. We walked in expecting to adopt a small dog, but the one we wanted to meet was adopted out and left ten minutes before we got there. So we went and looked at the other dogs. And then we stumbled across this big guy in the back of his cage, head cocked to the side, ears way too big for his head, not making a sound. My wife tells the staff she wants to meet him. We spent a whole 90 minutes trying to coax him out from under chairs. He was terrified.

Naturally, we took him home. And here he is an hour after getting there.

He stayed under my desk for the next three days.

He goes to the park once or twice a day, daycare once a week, and was in weekly group training for four months. He is so so so much more confident now. It's been just the most rewarding thing watching him come out of his shell.

Bonus: Here he is a couple weeks ago being murdered to death by one of the puppies at the park.

We've had him for about a year. He turns 2 in a few months.

One does not simply find a cat on the street...

...the cat finds you

Like there aren't cats for many thousands too?

Plenty of cat owners with ridiculously expensive malformed inbred cats.

Found on the streets of South Dallas with glaucoma in her now surgically removed eye, happy as ever and would still fetch all day if she could.