| Are you ready to bring joy to your home? Learn | | | | adopting you would not know if the puppy or kitten |
| about some common fears people have about | | | | is susceptible to any particular disease. |
| adopting pets and what you can do to minimize | | | | Another fear is behavior, for which the same criteria |
| them. I mentioned bringing joy to your home on | | | | may apply. You can take your time to go visit your |
| purpose. The first stray dog I ever adopted was | | | | potential pet, have it interact with your children and |
| Joy, our third dog. She was a happy dog from the | | | | family or even other pets; when you buy a pet that |
| day we found her, she just saw us and jumped into | | | | chance is not there. It is more likely for a puppy or a |
| my husband's arms. It was love at first sight. Then | | | | kitten whose personality has not developed to exhibit |
| came Lilly, who we rescued from a construction site. | | | | behavior problems than with an animal that has been |
| We got them a couple of months apart and we | | | | socialized in a shelter. You would already be able to |
| meant to just have them spayed, vaccinated and | | | | see if the potential pet has that type of problems. |
| then give them up for adoption. We never got | | | | Health and behavior aside, one last consideration you |
| around to doing that. Milo we got at a shelter and | | | | must have before adopting is the shelter, what it |
| had a disease that we had to help heal. | | | | looks and smells like, the staff's attitude towards the |
| There are some fears that people experience prior | | | | pets and the area where the pets are kept. This |
| to choosing adoption over buying a pet. One of them | | | | might also give you a hint as to the quality of life the |
| is the medical history; nobody knows what a stray or | | | | pets have just had prior to adoption. If you are just |
| abandoned animal might have suffered in the past. | | | | looking to have a pet at home, pedigree aside, give |
| True, but the same can apply to a puppy or kitten. | | | | adoption a try. It is a true act of love and there are |
| When people buy pets they are about three months | | | | many people out there who will be willing to help you |
| old, maybe a little more, so without incurring in the | | | | in more ways than you can imagine. |
| same expenses you would have to incur when | | | | |