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.
Absolutely adorable. What a cool little guy
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.
It’s working out splendidly.
I spent $25 to adopt my cat from my local humane society and now he’s my best friend in the whole world.
He’s beautiful
He’s got the friendliest face omg
He’s the sweetest cat I’ve ever met. He loves to snuggle with me and he follows me around my apartment wherever I go. And he loves pets and belly rubs.
That sounds wonderful. Cat-dogs are the best.
Pretty sure my dog belonged to someone else. He ran into our yard one day and stayed for almost 2 weeks. No one came looking for him after a few posts to social media.
He seems… very… lovely.
He has a great personality…
JK I’d boop dat snoot
Did you take him to the vet to check for a microchip? (And get his health checked)
He wasn’t chipped / fixed at all when we took him to the vet. After the first two weeks we ended up just keeping him hoping the owners would eventually turn up.
That’ll do, pig
Aww, he’s smiling at you. It looks like he wants a kiss…
Reminds me of The Mask
#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.
My dog showed up on our doorstep like, hi I’m your dog. So we were like, OK cool.
LOL, that’s hilarious. I waited a year for a dog to find me and tell me he’s part of my family, but it never happened, so we went and told one that he’s part of our family. He was pretty excited about that.
I bet he was!
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.
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 because she’s got all them teeth and no toothbrush
for bragging rights
The breeder fee is the cheapest part of owning a dog.
Food and vet bills will each cost far more over the lifetime of the animal.
This will also be true of our shelter cats
Dogs: Goes to the vet every 6 months, dies at 8.
Cats: Lives to be 24, got shots once at 8 weeks old.
Cats still need so much vet, maybe less than dogs tho
Anecdotal survey of 30 or so cat owners, thry dont get nearly the vet checks as dogs. Aside from maybe Maincoons since they have a whole mess of problems. Tabbys are absolute battle tanks.
Kosmo made it to 24 on her own terms going peacfully in her sleep.
My single orange brain cell does scare me some times. I get worried that he’s the type to hide if he actually gets hurt or sick.
He’s 12, and I have to play with him a lot, otherwise he’ll start chasing his tail, including biting it and by the sound of it, very hard.
I’ve had many, many cats in my life and always the orange ones are f!cking weird. I went to search why that is but I think the researchers are wrong with the below. I want another one but I’m not sure that I have the energy for it now that I’m older. They’re such goobers.
“The facts: Does being orange really influence cat behavior? The fact is, at least according to science, there is no such thing as orange cat behavior. “To date, no studies have shown any impact of coat color on personality in cats,” veterinary behaviorist Dr. Mikel Delgado tells The Wildest.”
Yeah well, they need to science harder, because they haven’t observed what orange tabby parents have observed for probably centuries.
For real, I have much faith in science, but not when it comes to orange cats. Those cats are dumb and weird and loveable as shit and no stupid science bitch is gonna tell me otherwise.
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).
Paying a breeder is a chump move.
Don’t act like there aren’t cat breeders selling Persians and Sphinxes for thousands.
Don’t forget Ragdolls
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’m ashamed to say I paid 100 bucks a gram for a 300 grams scrappy tiny thingy. Ashamed but unapologetic
You paid 30k?
Does it pee heroin?
I did not. I’m only bad at math.
Scrappy and tiny are the rarest and most coveted attributes of thingy, it will only go up in value.
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!”
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.
