My dog cost $80 and the fee included all health stuff as well as an RFID chip. Adopt a dog (or cat), fuck buying from a puppymill.
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Adopted from the pound, they threw that stuff in for free. (I threw money at them anyway)
dog tax included
Our dogs looks very similar!
Yup, I’ve noticed there are a bunch of similar looking black dogs like ours. I guess it’s the final form of the mutt 😍
Adopt a dog before buying from a reputable breeder.
It doesn't matter how good a breeder is. There are a hundred dogs of the exact breed you are looking for being put to death today because there are too many pets.
The adoption fee at my shelter is $150 for dogs. Dogs are chipped, fixed, and up-to-date on vaccines. The day my wife and I adopted our guy, they were taking a hundred bucks off the adoption fee for large dogs. We walked in expecting to adopt a small dog, but the one we wanted to meet was adopted out and left ten minutes before we got there. So we went and looked at the other dogs. And then we stumbled across this big guy in the back of his cage, head cocked to the side, ears way too big for his head, not making a sound. My wife tells the staff she wants to meet him. We spent a whole 90 minutes trying to coax him out from under chairs. He was terrified.
Naturally, we took him home. And here he is an hour after getting there.
He stayed under my desk for the next three days.
He goes to the park once or twice a day, daycare once a week, and was in weekly group training for four months. He is so so so much more confident now. It's been just the most rewarding thing watching him come out of his shell.
Bonus: Here he is a couple weeks ago being murdered to death by one of the puppies at the park.
We've had him for about a year. He turns 2 in a few months.
D'awwww
All that and we dont have his name???!!
His name is Sherlock. Here's a different post of him. He's mostly Pit Bull, but he also has some Chow Chow, Boxer, German Shepherd, and Husky.
I have a feeling OP posted this as bait, so people would post cute pics of their rescued dogs.
And I commend this effort. Moar doggos pls.
It's working out splendidly.
I spent $25 to adopt my cat from my local humane society and now he’s my best friend in the whole world.
He's beautiful
Pretty sure my dog belonged to someone else. He ran into our yard one day and stayed for almost 2 weeks. No one came looking for him after a few posts to social media.
He seems... very... lovely.
JK I'd boop dat snoot
Did you take him to the vet to check for a microchip? (And get his health checked)
He wasn't chipped / fixed at all when we took him to the vet. After the first two weeks we ended up just keeping him hoping the owners would eventually turn up.
Aww, he’s smiling at you. It looks like he wants a kiss…
who made this meme trying to imply there aren't equally dumb cat people spending multiple thousands on a "purebred" cat?
if anything should be banned it's the AKC and whatever the cat version is
I don't endorse these websites, but an example of some really expensive cat breeds.
Regardless of pet, don't buy designer pets unless they are rescues.
don't buy designer pets
All my cats are designer pets. They redesigned the couch, the stair carpet, the back of my chair. Very good designers.
#AdoptDontShop and don't support breeders/puppy mills.
No such thing as a "pure bred" dog anyways.
Plus, mutts have far fewer health problems. "Pure breeds" are largely inbred and products of incest.
My dog showed up on our doorstep like, hi I'm your dog. So we were like, OK cool.
LOL, that's hilarious. I waited a year for a dog to find me and tell me he's part of my family, but it never happened, so we went and told one that he's part of our family. He was pretty excited about that.
Pretty sure the shelter paid us to take our current cat lol. Or at least all the chipping and medical fees were waived. She'd been there for months and months and had already had one failed adoption.
She's ornery as hell and never wants us to pet her but somehow mysteriously happens to be in the same room as us all the time. And she sleeps on us at night. Deep down it's clear she loves us in her own cat way. 🥲
Also despite her...odd... temperament she is a beautiful cat! No clue why anyone would pay for an expensive breed when there are so many cuties like ours just wasting away in shelters.
Our shelter did this, but they didn't fix the cats. When we went back to get them fixed at the shelter, they said they'd kill our cats if we didn't pay them.
Found on the streets of South Dallas with glaucoma in her now surgically removed eye, happy as ever and would still fetch all day if she could.
The breeder fee is the cheapest part of owning a dog.
Food and vet bills will each cost far more over the lifetime of the animal.
This will also be true of our shelter cats
Paying a breeder is a chump move.
Don’t act like there aren’t cat breeders selling Persians and Sphinxes for thousands.
Unless you're putting your animal in shows, why tf would anyone care about having a pure breed? Get a mutt that resembles what you want, and you should be good to go (and have a healthier animal).
Got my dog for $30 bucks out of the back of a truck in a grocery store parking lot.
Plenty of cat owners with ridiculously expensive malformed inbred cats.
And dog owners who adopted or rescued
My best girl was a rescue. She's legitimately one of the best behaved and cutest dogs. Did we get lucky? Fuck yeah. Would I ever buy from a breeder? Probably not. There are rescue organizations for specific breeds if that's what you want/need.
Reminds me of a joke:
-"Yesterday, I went to a zoo and the only exhibition they had was a single dog."
-"Oh wow, that sounds horrible!"
-"Yeah, it was a shitzu!"
Cat 1: adopted from someone on Reddit who had taken in a preggo stray.
Cat 2: adopted from a shelter, was found in a hoarder house.
Cat 3: adopted from a shelter, was found in a Penske truck.
Foster cat: appeared on our window ledge, theory is she was dumped with her litter outside the pet shop nearby.
I'm anticipating more rescues in our future because people are selfish assholes who think spaying is cruel, but are totally ok with overpopulating the world with cats that don't receive adequate care and often die lonely.
High as balls cat 3 (Fran) after her gabapentin fueled vet day.
I'm ashamed to say I paid 100 bucks a gram for a 300 grams scrappy tiny thingy. Ashamed but unapologetic
every dog I've owned since adulthood was a rescue. they're the best dogs. the only thing you get with a purebred is a known history of disease and inbreeding ailments.
"I found this cat in the garbage"
All my dogs have been mutts that we adopted off the streets as puppies.
I asked a colleague once if they’d rescued their pet & got a very very light shaming, something about how not every living situation is right for the majority of shelter animals. IDK if it was about allergies or what, but… oops.