Why the Humane Society is the Way to Go (FGCU) Randye Brindle

Most people in today’s society have had a pet sometime in their life; many even have had a cat or a dog.  We all know that there are many ways to adopt a new pet to join your family.  Two major ways of adopting is first from the human society, and another is adopting from a pet store.  Most of us don’t think about where we should adopt from we just know the type of pet we would like to own, maybe doing some research to see if that type of pet would fit into your life and your schedule, and then going out and looking for that specific animal. 

My family adopted my dog about 8 years ago from the human society when we lived in South Dakota.  She’s mix bread between a beagle and a golden retriever.  We didn’t have a specific breed of dog that we were looking for we just wanted her to be house trained, and kid friendly.  She has been a great addition to our family; everyone that has watched her for us when we go out of town has asked where we got her and mentioned that she is so sweet.  This is a firsthand experience adopting from a local humane society, and having great results.

While I was researching this topic I was shocked by some of the facts that I found for example 2000 dogs and 3500 cats are born every hour in the United States according to the Humane Society Website.  Another sad fact is that over 10 million pets are euthanized each year.  There are too many pets in our Humane Society and not enough families willing to adopt them.  One of the main reasons for this is people want a specific breed and they think that they need to special order or gets them from a pet store.  This just isn’t true, if you go to the Humane Society website you can search for that specific breed and they will let you know what humane society have that pure breed.  If more people went about adoption this way then maybe some of the puppy mills would shut down.  Puppy Mills are farms that breed different pure breeds and then sell them to pet stores.  While these puppies are at the mills they are kept in horrible environments, barely fed, and all in all treated very poorly.  Many of the animals at these mills die while being there, and never make it into the home of a loving family. 

I believe that awareness needs to be brought to this subject.  Many people don’t know that you can adopt pure bred animals from the Humane Society.  Another misconception is that the animals there are abused, or have other psychological problems which can cause them to be aggressive.  I think that the Humane Society does a very good job of informing the customers about the specific pet.  Every animal has an information card that lets you know if it is house trained, and other major facts that you would want to know.  This will help people to make better decision on pet adoption.          

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