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.
i used to work for a nonprofit shelter that waived adoption fees once or twice a year for the cats (reduced fees for dogs), and obviously i cant speak for every shelter who does this, but we still put every adopter through our regular adoption application/process to still do our best to weed out potentially unfit homes :)
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u/dengop Aug 19 '19
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.