Posted on 12/31/2018 12:35:53 PM PST by SoCalConserv
Hmmm...lets see, I can buy a dog from the pet store at a huge mark up or I can go to the pound and get one for the cost of spay or neuter and vaccinations. Hmmm...what a dilemma.
I can’t express enough how glad I am NOT to be living in CA.
That state, or at least the leaders, have gone absolutely bat $hi# INSANE!!!!!
Can they sell abandoned husbands?
Only if they’re very well trained........
...and neutered.
Don’t give the feminists any ideas. They really want to REQUIRE it of all males.
Such virtue.
“Hmmm...lets see, I can buy a dog from the pet store at a huge mark up or I can go to the pound and get one for the cost of spay or neuter and vaccinations. Hmmm...what a dilemma.”
Around here in So CA, the rescue people can be little Nazis. I have seen a few that require background checks or even a home inspections. While I did run across one boarder collie breeder that required a home inspection, most AKC registered breeders just want cash and you get a good dog.
We have a dog and a cat, both rescues. The cat was just a kitten, a little fuzzball found on the side of the road. No one claimed him and he ended up here.
The dog was a stray as well, not tiny but still a puppy. He too went unclaimed and ended up with us.
Neither one has had problems from past trauma that we have seen. Well, the cat can be a PIA at times, but that’s just being a cat.
All that said, you make a good point. I’ve also seen plenty of dogs which aren’t abused but which have been allowed to develop bad habits. Some of them would be very unpleasant to live with.
Shelter participation? (Maybe) not knowingly. There’s always the ‘straw purchaser’ tactic.
Applying the progs’ approaches to freedom (gun) control is all that’s needed.
One of our best cats was a rescue, but their insistence on the hysterectomy at 5 months killed two of the 3 female kittens in her litter. It nearly killed her. That is way too early for such surgery. But she was eternally grateful we saved her sick little life, and at that time we let cats go outside. She was the killer hunter of any cat I have known. She could catch and kill anything.
It’s a feel-good business killer - until Kalifornia passes a law that every household has to purchase a rescue animal....
We like to adopt dogs. Every time we’ve lost one and begin to look for a new one I start hitting the shelters, all I find are pit bull crosses or chihuahua crosses. I’ve actually had better luck off Craigslist.
Yes. The pet stores here in Bakersfield don’t sell dogs or cats. They do host adoption days for the local shelters. PetSmart down the road from us has adoption day every Saturday I think. Usually from the outlieing areas shelters. Gives them larger visibility.
It seems to be widespread. When I adopted my current pup, there was only one other dog in the place that wasn’t at least part pit bull. It’s mind boggling how many people bring these beasts home, then abandon them as if the pit bull reputation ‘won’t apply this time.’
I agree with you. Our last rescue dog was a disaster. We had to put him to sleep just before Christmas after he bit his 5th person. He was a German Shep mix that caused me nothing but stress. All the bites were unprovoked sneak attack types.
No shelter would take him as they said he’d be un-adoptable. It really sucked as we had him since he was 3 months old, no abuse, loving home. My wife and I work from home and live next to a 600 acre nature preserve. It’s a dog paradise. This dog just couldn’t be trusted. He liked about 10 people and that’s it. He was great around our three boys but would growl and act menacing around other kids. We always had to have him secured when people came to the house.
We’re lucky we didn’t get sued. He was on leash with my wife in front of our house when a guy walked by, said nothing to my wife, just minding his business, didn’t try to pet the dog, nothing...he was a yard past my wife when the dog turned and lunged and bit him on the calf hard. My wife was distraught, and the guy was rightfully pissed.
That was it for me. Went to 2 shelters that day and had him put down the next day. Put a damper on Christmas and my kids hated me for a few days.
I’ve got nothing against pitbulls. Our family was probably some of the first owners of them before they became so popular. I was in high school and we owned 2. It’s just that as we’ve gotten older I don’t really want a dog that requires a lot of walking, etc. So I’ve moved down to smaller breeds....but I can’t stand chihuahuas. So most of the time the shelters don’t have what I’m looking for.
Now thanks to Jerry Brown a 16 year old can’t be charged with murder in California everyone feel safer now?.
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