I was tricked into all my cats by girlfriends. The cats lasted way longer than the girlfriends. Better mousers, too.
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Edit: I'm inept. Is this Sarah C Andersen comic showing up?
I had to click on it to show.
For me it's always visible.
The cat distribution system works in mysterious ways. I don't have a cat, but when i worked in pet stores, i heard all the stories.
Now for me? It's a dog distribution system cause i tend to find my puppies in the most odd circumstances and if i had left the place one minute earlier or later, i would never have gotten the awesome pup i have now.
I'm trying to think here... I think dog #1 was found next to the dumpster of an apartment complex. Dog #2 was from a shelter and had been picked up next to the dumpster of an apartment complex. Dog #3 was from a stray that whelped underneath someone's trailer home and everyone who knew the homeowner pitched in to help adopt out the pups. All great dogs, aside from #1 who was pretty territorial.
Meanwhile, my aunt bought a breeder dog (a white lab), and that was also an amazing dog with a lot of health issues. I think she paid bookus for it, so I'm on top of that particular fight.
Beaucoups*
Huh. I always thought it was just a colloquialism of my area, not an actual word. Neat.
French indignation
Its like garden plants that you struggle to keep alive vs weed that grew in a crack in a concrete runway
Man that article can fuck off, there are tons of dogs in shelters that need homes instead of buying a dog from a shit bag breeder
Tried it twice. Couldn't get a dog from the shelter. Why? We weren't married. (?) The both of us worked 4 days. We had a child.
So we shrugged it off, waved and snuggled with the sad doggies and never came back.
And we just bought a puppy. No rules. No problems. Now, 20+ years later we're on to our third very happy dog.
Anyway: a lot of shelters do their best to scare people away. And they succeed.
Imfao, I just saw a cat in the pet store (a rescue put their cats in those transparent cages and just left them on display in the pet store), I applied online, answered a list of questions over email, then a few days later went there to meet with the volunteer at the organization, paid the adoption fee fee, and got a cat.
Like lol, do dogs really get that complicated?
Damn, my local shelter just charges a 100 dollar adoption fee
Man the ones in Melbourne Australia cost up to $3,000 to adopt, unless you get Pitbulls and mastiffs, then it's $600. I just adopted a little Maltese looking thing for 1.5k
Strays are, i think, a much bigger issue in the United States. So most shelters are just happy they dont have to euthanize.
Aww didn't see the pic originally.
Ugh, we went to the RSPCA once and they were looking at our house on streetview and had this entire complicated process of introducing the cats to our existing cat by exchanging scented blankets over weeks. We went straight to the local shelter and took a stray they’d just got in. She’s great.
Often pets taken in by the RSPCA have been mistreated and need more patience and tlc than your average bear. But yes, it is a huge faff sometimes
Did you go to a shelter ir the humane society? The city run shelters just want to make sure you own the home you are in or at least have the owner's permission before you get a dog. Humane societies are private entities that pick and choose and are almost impossible to get a pet from anymore.
I know of a guy that went to a shelter for a dog, and they refused because he works with animals, in a farm. And they just hated him for it, excusing the refusal in "he is just going to use the dog as a dog guard", when this is not true at all, he already had a dog who is incredibly well treated and loved. But this shelter just hated farms, even this traditional farm which consisted in a 2-3 cows in a natural pasture, and refused to give this guy a dog.
I don't know what's going on with shelters.
That sounds like an issue with the employee(s) at one specific shelter. Surely that's not a systemic issue.
Adopting humans is in the same ballpark though I get why.
Exactly.
what if the article says to reconsider shelter dogs first
Yeah the article addresses some of those issues. It isn't taking some stand, it is just a guide to someone who already is considering buying one.
the dogs we still have (rip the others) were free on Facebook marketplace and they are texas heelers. i love these dogs.
actually, i found my dog in a dumpster. With her sister, that now lives with my brother.
You dropped this
Every dog I've ever had was a stray, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
My first cat was my grandmother's purebred Russian blue cat. She moved in with us when I was a kid and brought her Russian blue and Scottish fold. The Russian blue became mine and the Scottish fold welded herself to my mother. Poor grandmother, both her cats abandoned her!
Most memorable acquisition was playing rpgs at someone's home. A whip thin cat runs out, eyes as big as dinner plates, scared.
What a lovely cat! I say. Because it's a cat. I love all cats the second I view them.
Everyone who lived there turned and said at the same time
DO YOU WANT HER
And that's how we brought home a cat
I miss her
She was the best cat known to humans.
Dog would be like: found in the dumpster, it wag its tail, its mine.
But to be fair with cats, my youngest cat is like he found me, yell at me, he's mine.
And there are definitely things you should know about keeping cats. Still funny meme tho
Got my first cat because he showed up at my dad's gas station acting like he owned the place.
Dumpster gremlins are just the best 😸