It's Time To Raise Pets In America

With the development of the society, people feel lonely easily that they would consider to raise pets such dogs or cats. Although they should spend their much time on working, they think raising pets can relieve their burden of life. Even pets can bring us pleasure when they feel lonely. Pets are the best companion in our life.
More than 65% of American families are raising pets, which range from common ones such as dogs, cats, and rabbits, to more exotic animals like birds, snakes, and horses. Dogs and Cats are the most popular pets in the America. 3.1% of American are like to raise birds. It not need to pay too much money to raise birds. Raising a bird which is only need to pay 33 dollars per year. But raising a dog is ten times the price of raising a bird (U.S. Pet Ownership Statistics,2012). Dogs are more likely to be close to humans than cats. According the news, Americans spend 62.75 billion U.S. dollars on pet products, billions of which are used to buy toys. Most Americans …show more content…
Every year in the U.S., more than 6 million lost, abandoned, or unwanted dogs and cats enter animal shelters. Approximately 2 to 3 million cats and dogs, although many of them healthy, young, and adoptable, must be euthanized in animal shelters every year. No one hates that ugly reality more than the people who hold the syringe, but the alternative—warehousing them in “no-kill” shelters that confine animals to cages for weeks, months, or years on end—leaves animals to suffer a far worse fate. Nathan Winograd, the most well-known “no-kill” advocate, supports such shelters despite the fact that under these conditions, many animals go insane from loneliness and confinement. Therefore, if we decided to feed it and we could not give up halfway. Even we can start with a “no-birth nation” which is decrease the number of pets from the root cause (Companion Animal