Animal shelters are sheltering facilities designated for animals that have been lost, abandoned, or found on the streets. PETA has conducted research that “approximately six to eight million animals are handled by animal shelters each year in the U.S” (1). The animals housed at these facilities are often petrified because of the foreign environment of strange animals, poor living quarters, and small quantities of food. The lack of people adopting from shelters has created an issue of overcrowding in shelters. The issue of overcrowding has to be changed to help innocent animals from suffering each day. People who decide to add a pet to their family should adopt from animal shelters rather than breeders to help save animal lives, benefit animals,
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A blog written by Helene, an English teacher wrote a blog about why she and others chose to adopt from breeders. The first reason Helene explained for the reasoning behind adopting from a breeder was the fact that she wanted a purebred dog and not a mutt or mixed breed (1). Helene explained from her blog post on September 23, 2014 that she chose her dog because “he comes from a long line of well bred, award winning, working Dobermans” (1). The idea that she can have a dog from a pure line and award winning background seems to be more important than saving a helpless animal’s life from the cruelties of animal shelters. Helene also goes onto explain that she chose to adopt a purebreed to “protect the breed” (1). She seems to fear that if trends for adopting dogs from the animal shelters increase that these dogs will lose traces back to their roots and all become mixed. The fear that the animals will fail to “keep the breed intact” stems from the idea that all breeds had certain “picked qualities…that we valued and spent years to develop” for example, the notion that “spaniels and pointers are good at hunting” or that “Australian Shepherds are good for sheep herding” (Helene 1). The idea that certain breeds will depreciate over time creates the desire to adopt from a breeder for these
A blog written by Helene, an English teacher wrote a blog about why she and others chose to adopt from breeders. The first reason Helene explained for the reasoning behind adopting from a breeder was the fact that she wanted a purebred dog and not a mutt or mixed breed (1). Helene explained from her blog post on September 23, 2014 that she chose her dog because “he comes from a long line of well bred, award winning, working Dobermans” (1). The idea that she can have a dog from a pure line and award winning background seems to be more important than saving a helpless animal’s life from the cruelties of animal shelters. Helene also goes onto explain that she chose to adopt a purebreed to “protect the breed” (1). She seems to fear that if trends for adopting dogs from the animal shelters increase that these dogs will lose traces back to their roots and all become mixed. The fear that the animals will fail to “keep the breed intact” stems from the idea that all breeds had certain “picked qualities…that we valued and spent years to develop” for example, the notion that “spaniels and pointers are good at hunting” or that “Australian Shepherds are good for sheep herding” (Helene 1). The idea that certain breeds will depreciate over time creates the desire to adopt from a breeder for these