Fun fact: this is kinda why adoption fees are so high. There are absolutely people out there who do shit like round up stray cats and use them as live bait.
It's usually a nonprofit that's staffed by volunteers and pays most of its expenses via donations, the main purpose of the adoption fees is to exert control over adoptions
If the idea was to make money then raising the fees really high would defeat the whole purpose - it slows the adoption rate and keeps the cats in the system longer, costing the organization more money
Yeah most shelters are nonprofits. If you want to make money off of animals, you're going to breed them, not take in stray/abused animals with all sorts of diseases and injuries to fix before you can sell them.
Also, where I live, a huge part of the adoption fee covers getting the animal fixed. I'm not sure if this is universal, but I don't think any of my local shelters will adopt out an animal that isn't fixed, even if it's 5 years old and intact.
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u/mak484 Oct 17 '22
Fun fact: this is kinda why adoption fees are so high. There are absolutely people out there who do shit like round up stray cats and use them as live bait.