animalsheltersinboston
Pet adoption just might be the best thing you can do for
yourself and your family So many pets are homeless these days. The Humane
Society of the United States, says an 8 to 10 million cats and dogs enter
animal shelters annually. And in conjunction with this 4 to 5 million cats and
dogs are being euthanized by these shelters. These figures don’t include those
in small, local and home-based shelters you see at the Petco’s or PetSmart’s in
your local communities. There are also animal rescue organizations that take
abused and abandoned animals.
Pet adoption is taking responsibility for an animal put up
for adoption due to the circumstances mentioned above. With pet adoption, these
pets get a chance in finding the appropriate, caring and life long home for
them. Aside from this humane chance we are giving to man’s best friends, there
are also benefits from adopting animals.
Actually, senior citizens, who are great pet adoption
candidates, actually need less medical attention. Not only are the elderly
deriving benefits from pets. Children exposed to pets during their first year
of life have a lower frequency of many childhood maladies.
This is just the first in a series of missives about pet
adoption. Here’s a little blog about pet adoption that might be interesting
http://budurl.com/Adoptapet and http://www.petfinder.com/blog/
As per statistics from ASPCA, 5 out of 10 dogs in shelters
and 7 out of 10 cats in shelters are destroyed simply because there is no one
to adopt them. However, if we all take some time to help out in a very SMALL
way, we can make a BIG difference.
The most common reason that an animal shelter can hear from
pet parents surrendering their pets is that they are moving. And in this
economy it’s a sad fact that the numbers are growing as people lose jobs, homes
and they can’t, in many cases, afford to treat these pests properly and
surrendering them is the last option in these sad, sad circumstances.
Approximately four million animals are killed each year, in
shelters across the U.S. That seems like a pretty good reason to head straight
for the nearest shelter. Unfortunately shelter animals still get a bad rap. Too
many people assume that all animals dumped in facilities are there because they
are “bad”. There are countless reasons why an animal ends up at a
shelter; death of the owner, confiscated from an abusive situation and victim
of foreclosure, to name just a few.
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