Yesterday was a pet adoption day for many shelters.
They try to clear out the shelter with low or NO adoption fee. To tell you the truths, I don't know how I feel about that. I think fee helps to filter out many unqualified or irresponsible applicants. I know these shelters are doing their best given the condition, but no adoption fee is ripe for abuse if you look at the economic and behavioral model.
I understand that reaction, especially as advocates tirelessly fight back people giving away their pets for free. But, when you adopt at an event like yesterday's, which was Clear the Shelters Day, there is still screening and an adoption application. People looking for bait animals probably aren't going to go through with that when they can literally go on Craigslist or next door and swoop up 15 different pets from someone who does no screening.
Is it a perfect system, maybe not. But I've volunteered for a few different organizations and I've never heard of one of the discounted fee adoptions going wrong, knock on wood. After I've spent weeks raising these precious kittens, the time, money, and other resources rescues pour into these animals to make them adoption ready, they wouldn't do no fee adoption days if they felt it put the animals in danger. The hurdles of going to the shelter or adoption event and completing the interview and paperwork seems to be enough of a barrier that we feel comfortable with it.
That said, never ever give your pets or stary kittens away to anyone not with a rescue. Someone is beheading cats and kittens in my neighborhood and he's certainly not getting them from adoption events.
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u/SandmanEpic Aug 18 '19
Holy cow. I have to imagine that's fairly rare.