...where people prefer to adopt other pets, and never opt to go a pet-dog. Many have associated their preference to the easiness in training the pet as well as the difficulties experienced when outsourcing for the same. Personally I feel that a dog would make an excellent pet on my side. In fact, dogs are indeed the best pets one would wish to have as they provide the desired companionship and support to the owner. Adopting a dog is in itself fulfilling since I will deliberately take care of the pet while providing the necessary care and amenities. Majority of dogs up for adoption are pure breeds, thus possess excellent agility and obedience levels (Banks, 2006). Dogs are beneficial pets especially because of the endless options which a dog can undertake. There are competitions available for the pet dogs for instance they can be useful for therapy purposes or even security services. Such competition avenues are not available to other pets like cats and lizards. As long as the dogs are spayed and neutered on regular basis, most illnesses which affect them will be put at-bay. Thus expensive medications due to illnesses like hip dysplasia, cancer or chronic seizures will not be undertaken translating to a lot of savings. Other dogs are already trained on commands and obedience thus bonding becomes easy. This is not the case with other pets like bird or even lizard where the adopter has to engage in serious training prior to familiarizing with the pets behavior. More often than not, you...
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...In today's society, America, along with most of the world, is facing many struggles with the economy. This includes unemployment, cut wages, raises in taxes, etc. This leaves the average American without enough money to support them selves. So what does that mean for pets and animal care? A pet is something a person has to take care of. Most of the time an individual must clean, feed and wash the pet they have. This means that because of the bad economy, vet costs are increasing; pets are being neglected and are also being abandoned. In the United States, about 63% of American families own a pet. Even if money is tight, it is immoral to let animals suffer the negative consequences of a falling economy. Why are pets necessary for one’s life? First off pets can improve someone’s mood. When something is giving constant love, it is unlikely to put you in a bad mood and even if you’re in a bad mood already they’ll put you in a better one! Pets are also stress relievers and make you feel less lonely. According to an article about health benefits of pets, “A recent study found that men with AIDS were less likely to suffer from depression if they owned a pet.” A person who lives for something else is much happier than if they were just living for themselves! A few weeks ago I lost my cat because someone took him and left him on the side of a road 15 minutes away from where I lived. He got hit by a car and had broken his leg. The total bill to release my cat from the animal shelter...
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...percent of cats get reunited with their owner. Unnecessary deaths of animals occur because their population is growing rapidly due to breeders and illegal puppy mills. Also, the public doesn’t understand the importance of sterilizing their pets by spaying or neutering them. Most animal shelters have become more humane about the way they euthanize the animals at their shelter, but there are still hundreds of shelters that use inhumane ways to euthanize animals such as electrocution and decompression. Buying an animal from a shelter instead of from a breeder will decrease the population of the animals, which will result in less animals getting euthanized. Some people might argue that animal shelters are a staple for our economy because they can keep the rates of animals under control. Animal shelters do house hundreds of animals at once, and only keep the ones that they think are best fit for adoption and euthanize sick and injured animals. Without animal shelters, there would be a lot of unnecessary pain and illness of animals on the street. Shelters are a place where people can bring their pet if it is ill and cannot become healthy to get euthanized for a reasonable price. Shelters are also the place where people can bring their pets that they can no longer keep in hopes that they will get a nice family to adopt them. “Shelters do place at least twenty five percent of animals that come in into new homes, and find the owners of at least fifteen percent of the animals” (Animal...
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...The Lost Innocents Richard Napper University of Phoenix When an individual makes the complicated decision of adding a four-legged member to their family it should be viewed as a lifelong commitment. The majority of people who decide to take in a new four legged family member usually have the best intentions at the time. However, life happens and things tend to change. The puppy who was once small and adorable is now full grown, becoming ignored, and is chewing for attention. The kitten who was once a cute little ball of fur is now not so little and clawing the furniture and using the potty in paces other than the litter box. Maybe there was a job loss in the family, or the individual has become homeless because of financial mishaps. With foreclosure on the rise these days due to a bad economy this is happening more often than not lately. One must plan for these types of issues that may arise in the near or distant future. There are a lot of individuals who believe that an animal shelter is the answer of all answers. The awful truth is they are mostly overcrowded and under staffed. More animals get euthanized inside the shelter due to lack of space than adopted by potential lifelong owners in the animal shelter. The animal shelter should not be used as a way to ease guilt on the former owners’ conscience. It should not be used as a dump site or a place to put your older animal like you would a senior citizen in a nursing home. Is animal abandonment ethically and morally wrong...
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...million dogs are available for adoption on a yearly basis. The main reason why so many dogs are available for adoption is there are many individuals who give up their pets to animal shelters, and the number of individuals who go to shelters to adopt a dog is small. Unfortunately, many animal shelters do not have enough space to house the pets comfortably and sometimes do not even have enough resources to take care of the pets. These reasons sometimes push animal shelters to tight corners and cause them to eliminate some of the pets that have not been adopted. If more people came up and adopted the dogs, fewer animals would be eliminated or tortured by those who adopt them for weird reasons. The other reason why one should adopt a dog is that when one adopts a dog from an animal shelter, he or she not only gets to save money but also gets to adopt healthy dogs. There is a common misconception that animals found in animal shelters usually have something wrong with them. The fact is there are numerous reasons that may make one give up a pet to an animal shelter. However, this is not necessarily because the animal is injured or has a certain fault. Animal rescue centers usually concentrate on bringing up animals in the healthiest way that they can to make it easy for one to adopt a dog, should one choose to take the dog home. The shelters also regularly examine the pets and vaccinate them accordingly and regularly, and they pay close attention to the pets to ensure they are in their...
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...(NASDAQ: PETM) As the largest specialty pet retailer of services and solutions for the lifetime needs of pets, we employ approximately 52,000 associates and operate 1,289 stores and more than 196 in-store PetSmart PetsHotels® dog and cat boarding facilities in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. We provide a broad range of competitively priced pet products and in-store services including pet adoption, boarding, grooming and training. Our stores are stocked with more than 10,000 products and we’re also a leading online provider of pet supplies and pet care information (http://www.petsmart.com/). Through our in-store pet adoption partnership with PetSmart Charities®, PetSmart has helped save the lives of more than 5 million pets since 1994. PetSmart Charities, Inc. and PetSmart Charities of Canada, Inc. (“PetSmart Charities”) are independent, nonprofit organizations that save the lives of homeless pets and reduce shelter intake through spay/neuter efforts. In 2012, nearly 450,000 dogs and cats found homes through the organization's adoption centers in all PetSmart stores and by sponsoring community adoption events. PetSmart Charities is the leader in granting money to help pets in need, with more than $28 million given in 2012 throughout North America. We operate 196 in-store PetSmart PetsHotels dog and cat boarding facilities. These overnight boarding facilities feature associates who are hand-picked for their love of pets and at least one caregiver is always on the...
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...Lovelypuppy---- (Yunni Li, Shengying Liao, Weiguo Wu, Zhuoyuan Zhong, Amy Carls) A. We choose the “lovely puppy” as our domain name. Certainly, it is a really direct name to make our customer to figure out the objects of our company. But the point we need to mention is that the aim of our company is to encourage customer to adopt a puppy instead of buying one. Our business focuses on the gathering information of different organizations. We compare and find the best puppy to fit customer’s requirements. In other words, we act as the intermediary between customers and various organizations. Besides offering information to customers, we can also evaluate the qualification of the customers for adoption. The statement of the specific objectives of our website offers the information of puppies to customers and gathers information of customers to organizations. The website is the most important part to our business. We act as the intermediary between customers and various organizations. So the website is the critical part to gather and offer information. As well, our website is a platform to communicate between customers and us. Our website should include introduction of each dog, the information of being a qualified adopters, the application form for customers, the sales of accessories, tips of raising a dog, and question-answer sections. We will illustrate the information of each dog including age, breed, color, temperatament, gender, weight and even the history of the dog. In this...
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...Animal rights Shelter for the defenseless animals is perhaps the saddest human reflection of insensitivity and lack of sympathy. As I was strolling between bunch of cages filled with at least couple of animals per enclosure, squashed together with no space to move around. Every single one looking directly at you, they were full of despair and longing, tracking your every step. Dog noses coming out the nets, full of remorse meowing cats. Every day they are thrown out, lost, starved, injured, and homeless. Their fear and damage is suffered from humans which makes them vulnerable. All of these animals simply need our help. Animal shelters are full of such unwanted pets, and each one of them had an owner before, then suddenly thrown into the streets, left there to die. They have no body to have a close relationship with or have a chance of regular exercise because the shelters often don’t employ a sufficient amount of care takers because of the budget limit; therefore there are not enough of staff members to let the dogs go out at least once a day for a walk. In such cases, volunteers are highly appreciated. I believe that people have the ability to manage their own destiny and have an opportunity to make their own choices in life, although when they make a mistake or fail they expect help from the society, but on the other hand animals don’t have this alternative as their life lies in the hands of humans. And the truth is that people are the cause of animals being homeless therefore...
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...Shelter for the defenceless animals is perhaps the saddest human reflection of insensitivity and lack of sympathy. As I was strolling between bunch of cages filled with at least couple of animals per enclosure, squashed together with no space to move around. Every single one looking directly at you, they were full of despair and longing, tracking your every step. Dog noses coming out the nets, full of remorse meowing cats. Every day they are thrown out, lost, starved, injured, and homeless. Their fear and damage is suffered from humans which makes them vulnerable. All of these animals simply need our help. Animal shelters are full of such unwanted pets, and each one of them had an owner before, then suddenly thrown into the streets, left there to die. They have no body to have a close relationship with or have a chance of regular exercise because the shelters often don’t employ a sufficient amount of care takers because of the budget limit; therefore there are not enough of staff members to let the dogs go out at least once a day for a walk. In such cases, volunteers are highly appreciated. I believe that people have the ability to manage their own destiny and have an opportunity to make their own choices in life, although when they make a mistake or fail they expect help from the society, but on the other hand animals don’t have this alternative as their life lies in the hands of humans. And the truth is that people are the cause of animals being homeless therefore they should...
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...Feathers, Fur & Friends Animal Rescue and Sanctuary 1680 SE Virginia Road, Bend, OR 97702 541-410-8209 FOSTER/ADOPTION APPLICATION Thank you for taking the time to complete this application. The information provided will help us understand your home environment, as wel l as your qualifications and interests regarding fostering or volunteering. Please do not hesitate to call with questions or assistance in completing this form. Pleas e be as thorough and precise as possible. We will be checking veterinary referen ces, and we ask that you notify your clinic so release information to our rescue is allowed. Name: ____________________________________________ Age: _____ Signature: ___________________________________________________ Spouse/Significant Other: ______________________________________ Children's Ages: ______________________________________________ Address: ____________________________________________________ City, State, Zip: ______________________________________________ Phone Home: (____) ____ - _____ Alternative Phone: (____) ____ - _____ Best time to call at what number: ________________________________ E-mail:_____________________________________________________ Occupation: _________________________________________________ Spouse's Occupation: __________________________________________ Type of Dwelling: House: ____ Condo: ____ Apartment: ____ Other: ___ Do you rent: ___ own: ___? If you rent, do you have the landlord's permission to foster a bird? _______ Does anyone...
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...Sample Adoption Agreement provided by: www.halrescue.org ADOPTER'S INFORMATION: Name: Phone Number: Address: License /SSN # City, State, Zip: INFORMATION ABOUT ADOPTED ANIMAL: Cat/Dog/Other If other, specify: M/F Date of Birth: Color: Other description/markings: ADOPTER'S AGREEMENT • I agree that the animal is being adopted for myself and will not be sold, adopted, or given to another party. • I agree that the animal will not be allowed outdoors without supervision. When taking my dog outdoors, s/he will be on a secure harness and wear proper ID. • (If adopting a cat) I agree that I will not declaw the cat or allow the cat outdoors. • (If adopting a dog) I agree that this dog is to be a companion animal, not a guard dog. The dog will live inside my home. • I agree that the animal must be spayed/neutered by 5 months of age. If the animal is not spayed/neutered prior to adoption, proof of surgery must be mailed to the rescue within 30 days of the procedure. • I agree to care for the animal in a humane manner. This includes supplying adequate food, water, shelter, attention, and medical care. • I agree that if at any point I can not keep the animal, I will return him/her to the original...
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...began explaining, to the doctor, about their concerns. They described Clara as a quiet child who has recently begun throwing temper tantrums, during which she is inconsolable. Clara’s sleep and eating patterns have changed, and she no longer wants to go to preschool. Based on the limited information provided in this scenario, there are other questions that I would like to see answered. The very first step I would take, before asking for more information from the adoptive parents, is to remove Clara from the room and place her in an atmosphere that better suites her, like a play room located in the office building. After Clara is removed from the office, I would start of by asking if the adoption was an open adoption, and the age when Clara was adopted. If the adoption was not an open adoption, the true parents of Clara could be trying to make contact with her while she away from her adoptive parents. This can cause confusion in Clara, and possibly be a reason why her behavior has all of a sudden changed. I would also ask how long they had Clara, and if they had any information on Clara’s biological parents. If they did have background information on the biological parents, I would want to find out if there was a history of any psychological disorders or mental illnesses that could include; depression, anxiety, or any learning disabilities. I would ask if anything changed in their household since...
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...significant others. Although none of these circumstances are ideal, the fact of the matter is that it happens. Many people fall into that single parent category after failed marriages and relationships (with kids). With the continued increase in divorce this speaks to the illusion of the ideal heterosexual home and its stability. Love conquers all, and it should be the true determining factor of normality. there are millions of children waiting to be adopted into steady homes. Everyone has the right to choose who they want to spend their life with, or take care of regardless of race, religion, and gender. Therefore gay couples should have the right to affirm their love by adopting legally and publicly. Those who are against gay adoption claim that they would hate to see a child with "two moms" or "two dads" because they would be teased and tormented for it. But then they forget the fact that if children were raised to be more tolerant and accepting of this there would be no Teasing. If it was taught to them that there is not just one family dynamic they would be more accepting. This is not a question of the interest of the child it is making excuses for this countries ignorance when it relates to homosexuals and their rights. What...
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...Cruelty to Animals(ASPCA) is to save animals being abused by their owners. You should participate in some of the adoption events because it saves millions of animals lives each year, creates a better home for the animals, and it helps strays find homes. “Almost 3 million healthy animals don’t make it out of a shelter because of overpopulation”(Animal Homelessness). The ASPCA protects animals who are left to do die and have no good safe home. They are non-profit organization just wanting to protect the animals wellbeing. They save the lives of animals everyday, they go into houses or wherever the animal was spotted and try to...
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...community. In Delaware, recent legislation has been put into place, backed by organizations seeking to improve the treatment of animals, relating to the dangers humans pose on pets as well as the dangers these pets pose to humans. In addition, new organizations are pushing to spread awareness on how to protect your pets. These efforts affect Delaware pet owners as well as the First State Animal Center and SPCA, the statewide organization seeking to prevent cruelty and suffering to animals as well as the fair adoption of pets into homes. Each piece of legislation targets a need of the FSAC and is supported by partnerships. First, a bill has been passed to promote the management of shelter standards, the humane killing of animals in shelters. Through ongoing collaborations with the governor’s office and the General Delaware Assembly, shelters are now required to evaluate animals in depth before deciding whether or not to euthanize. Also, shelters throughout Delaware are being forced to eliminate inhumane gas shelters if euthanasia is chosen. Second, a bill was passed “relating to the training and certification of Animal Control Officers and Animal Cruelty Investigators,” according to the States News Service. The evaluation of animals seized in criminal activity, cruelty, or struggling for adoption is now to be handled by certified professionals. The Office of Animal Welfare is tasked with developing training and resources to enforce existing animal welfare laws as well as...
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