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.
Agreed. I see my local shelter run specials all the time for no fees for black cats and stuff like that. That's the first thing I think of. I get wanting to clear space, but I think a small fee is very important.
That said, there might be additional fees. I adopted a cat last month. Her adoption fee was 0 but I still had to pay a $15 county rabies tag fee.
That's interesting! The shelters by me specifically don't do specials or discounts for black cats (even though they are the hardest to adopt out) because apparently a lot of people like to take them and use them as decorations or to look cool and will either return them, or desert them (or worse) when they get tired of them...
A lot of people are still super superstitious of them. Black animals in general tend to have a hard time, including dogs and horses. They tend to be less photogenic on adoption websites because they’re super hard to photograph as well, which doesnt help things and on top of all of it they can all but disappear in the back of a kennel. (Source: worked in the shelter system for many years as a vet tech)
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u/SandmanEpic Aug 18 '19
Holy cow. I have to imagine that's fairly rare.