Pet Help

It is unfortunate that pet adoption rescue services need to take place daily in this country. It’s a tragic commentary on how we treat pets. Animals of every stripe are neglected, abused and even discarded as if they have no feelings of suffering and pain associated with loss of care.

The animal shelter where most abandoned street dwelling animals eventually end up will sadly put them to death because adoptee families are hard to find. In every town, city and state in these United States this tragedy continues to play out on a daily basis.

Pet rescue is such an overwhelming need because more pets are born each year in this country than there are loving homes to take care of them. If more dog and cat owners would spay and neuter their animals in a responsible way, there would many fewer unwanted animals leading to overpopulation.

Before pets are euthanized, thousands of unnamed individuals work tirelessly, as does the Humane Society, to find homes for as many of these unfortunate pets as possible. Pet adoption agencies, which are almost wholly staffed by volunteers who give of their precious time, do their best to provide dignified care and comfort to the dogs, cats and other animals in their charge.

Experts in the area of pet rescue do not recommend that people buy their next pet from a local pet store. Quite often these animal were bought from “puppy mill” settings where profit is the only consideration. At these puppy mills, squalid, atrocious and generally inhumane conditions exist for the cats, dogs and other animals.

Professionals in pet adoption rescue insist that buying pets from local pet stores simply reinforces the cycle of notorious mistreatment that exists in puppy mills. Alternatively, they suggest you can help end animal abuse by purchasing your next pet from your local SPCA or pet adoption center where there are many great pets in need of a home.

If the world were fair, every pet born would have a loving, caring keeper. Unfortunately, too many of our pets are neglected and abused by their breeders as a simple commodity. It makes a caring person, who believes in the dignity and honor of each creature living on this earth; sad to see just how inhumanely we treat many animals.

Get a local pound or pet shelter pet if you want to be part of the solution that will lessen the need for pet adoption rescues in this country. Spay or neuter all dogs or cats when appropriate to make sure there are no unintended or unwanted pregnancies. And finally, since your pet’s life is so short on this earth, provide the best love and care so it has a happy and healthy life.