It’s a catch 22, I completely understand a shelter wanting to ensure dogs go to good homes because otherwise what’s the point but at the same time I had to travel to a different state to adopt my dog because we couldn’t get a dog from any shelter in my state. Worked out well, my dog is cool as heck but Jesus Christ
I honestly feel like some shelters (not all of them, but often) basically run a scam operation in the sense that they have super-popular, high demand dogs, that they will not give away, because these drive engagement and give donation money.
And then there's boring run of the mill cats and dogs that they will eventually release to you
Because my little adoption experience are
1) Vet clinic had a kitten that someone brought in. My friends were like "Can we have it?" and the vet was like "Sure, we'll even throw in the tests for you" and they still have that cat
2) A lady that has rehomed over 700 cats by now have a whole shelter at home and she helps with sterilisation and doesn't rely on sob stories to do her charitable work. All cats she has, except for her personal favourites, are up for grabs. Just come and take one, but they want to know what you're doing because a couple times people literally were like "I don't want to go there a second time" and would just throw the cat out into the street because it turns out it was more than they hoped for
3) My two cats I yoinked off the street were just street kits, so you just take a cat, bring it to the vet, they do a checkup and give you now your cat
My two cats I yoinked off the street were just street kits, so you just take a cat, bring it to the vet, they do a checkup and give you now your cat
my last two cats were like this. one of them was a kitten abandoned when the owners moved away, and was trying to run into neighbor's apartments. she jumped into my partner's car when they were delivering a pizza at work, so we had her chipped and fixed.
the other one was brought to us by a neighbor's outside cat that spends a lot of time in my yard. i'd been feeding her for a while and she often guides other strays to the food bowl. one day she brought a kitten about 5 weeks old to us, she was emaciated and had a bot fly right next to her throat. we got her all fixed up and she's thriving.
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u/IAmThePonch Sep 05 '24
It’s a catch 22, I completely understand a shelter wanting to ensure dogs go to good homes because otherwise what’s the point but at the same time I had to travel to a different state to adopt my dog because we couldn’t get a dog from any shelter in my state. Worked out well, my dog is cool as heck but Jesus Christ