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The breeder fee is the cheapest part of owning a dog.
Food and vet bills will each cost far more over the lifetime of the animal.
Dogs: Goes to the vet every 6 months, dies at 8.
Cats: Lives to be 24, got shots once at 8 weeks old.
Cats still need so much vet, maybe less than dogs tho
Anecdotal survey of 30 or so cat owners, thry dont get nearly the vet checks as dogs. Aside from maybe Maincoons since they have a whole mess of problems. Tabbys are absolute battle tanks.
Kosmo made it to 24 on her own terms going peacfully in her sleep.
My single orange brain cell does scare me some times. I get worried that he’s the type to hide if he actually gets hurt or sick.
He’s 12, and I have to play with him a lot, otherwise he’ll start chasing his tail, including biting it and by the sound of it, very hard.
I’ve had many, many cats in my life and always the orange ones are f!cling weird. I went to search why that is but I think the researchers are wrong with the below. I want another one but I’m not sure that I have the energy for it now that I’m older. They’re such goobers.
“The facts: Does being orange really influence cat behavior? The fact is, at least according to science, there is no such thing as orange cat behavior. “To date, no studies have shown any impact of coat color on personality in cats,” veterinary behaviorist Dr. Mikel Delgado tells The Wildest.”
For real, I have much faith in science, but not when it comes to orange cats. Those cats are dumb and weird and loveable as shit and no stupid science bitch is gonna tell me otherwise.
Yeah well, they need to science harder, because they haven’t observed what orange tabby parents have observed for probably centuries.
That’s not true, they also get fixed at some point lol.
We lost our 19 year old kitty back in November. she was a fuckin’ trooper :p
This will also be true of our shelter cats
That to me just tells how many cats there are on the streets
I heard a statistic some years ago, have no source so they may have just pulled it from thin air, that there is a 14 to 1 ratio of cats to people in the US.
every dog I’ve owned since adulthood was a rescue. they’re the best dogs. the only thing you get with a purebred is a known history of disease and inbreeding ailments.
My dog cost $80 and the fee included all health stuff as well as an RFID chip. Adopt a dog (or cat), fuck buying from a puppymill.
Damn! The shelters around here want $600 for a mutt with no manners. The last city we lived in had an S.P.C.A. though, and we adopted a little pretty princess for -i think- $79.
Adopted from the pound, they threw that stuff in for free. (I threw money at them anyway)
dog tax included
Our dogs looks very similar!
Yup, I’ve noticed there are a bunch of similar looking black dogs like ours. I guess it’s the final form of the mutt 😍
Adopt a dog before buying from a reputable breeder.
It doesn’t matter how good a breeder is. There are a hundred dogs of the exact breed you are looking for being put to death today because there are too many pets.
That’s such an americentric statement. There are other countries in the world, you know?
In Germany we have such a small amount of stray dogs, or ones getting surrendered to shelters, that shelters have to import dogs from other countries to fulfill demand. And there have been tons of cases where those turned out to come from puppy mills abroad.
So yes, there are cases where buying from a reputable breeder is a much more ethical option than getting a dog from a shelter
https://www.iamexpat.de/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/pandemic-pets-are-filling-animal-shelters-germany
There are 3 million dogs in US shelters and German shelters are getting their dogs from foreign puppy mills instead of the US?
The answer is still to adopt. The dogs are coming either from a shelter or a mill and both are good sources for adoption.
The former means it’s still giving a dog a home. It is still a dog that needs a home regardless of which country it originated from.
The latter seems completely nonsense if the German shelters are paying full price and still giving the dogs up for adoption at reasonable rates. They’d be losing a ton of money. And if they’re taking the leftovers from the puppy mills for cheap or free, then those are still losses to the mills and are discouraging more breeding. Also, those are still dogs that need homes regardless of source. Just because a dog was born in a mill doesn’t mean it deserves not to be adopted.
In either case the answer is still to get a dog from a shelter.
Pretty sure my dog belonged to someone else. He ran into our yard one day and stayed for almost 2 weeks. No one came looking for him after a few posts to social media.
Aww, he’s smiling at you. It looks like he wants a kiss…
Reminds me of The Mask
He seems… very… lovely.
He has a great personality…
JK I’d boop dat snoot
Did you take him to the vet to check for a microchip? (And get his health checked)
He wasn’t chipped / fixed at all when we took him to the vet. After the first two weeks we ended up just keeping him hoping the owners would eventually turn up.
That’ll do, pig
Paying a breeder is a chump move.
who made this meme trying to imply there aren’t equally dumb cat people spending multiple thousands on a “purebred” cat?
if anything should be banned it’s the AKC and whatever the cat version is
I don’t endorse these websites, but an example of some really expensive cat breeds.
Regardless of pet, don’t buy designer pets unless they are rescues.
As someone who wants a cat but is really allergic, I’m not looking forward to shelling out for a Bengal or sphynx when the temptation gets too high…
I watch shelters around here constantly, and only one of them has ever come through.
It was adopted in about 10 seconds
This might not be feasible if you’re in the states but if you have access to good healthcare, go to an allergist and get the shots! I’ve always had cats and been allergic to them , I survived with an inhaler and prescription pills. Since I finished my shots last year I’ve felt 100x better. The only time I need my pills now for cats is when I visit my mom who has 5 of them, with one long haired orange boi that just needs to sit on your head.
Unfortunately, I’m American :/
Do not buy a sphinx if you’re allergic to cats. People who are allergic are generally allergic to the oil (sebum). Sphinxs are awful for people who are allergic.
If not bathed regularly, they’ll cover your furniture in that oil too.
Ah, thanks for the info! A lot of the articles I was looking at said that they were good for people with allergies, including one from a vet service, so that’s good to know.
The whole hairless thing is also super unsettling to me so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum… it’s breathtaking- I highly suggest you try it.
My ex thinks they are cute.
But I guess some people think naked mole rats are cute too. Or mangy bears?
Had a friend who had two bengal kittens. They could leap up an entire flight of stairs in two bounds. Even ignoring all the issues with breeders, don’t fuck with bengal kittens. You’ll need to turn your whole house into a jungle gym.
don’t buy designer pets
All my cats are designer pets. They redesigned the couch, the stair carpet, the back of my chair. Very good designers.
What is it with cats and stair carpet? It’s like a super shitty scratching post? I had one cat that refused to scratch anything but the top two stairs to the point where he pulled the carpet pad off
I got some of those corrugated scratching boards and popped one onto the second step from the bottom and another onto the top of the stairs and he never deviated from the scratchers after that.
“I found this cat in the garbage”
Plenty of cat owners with ridiculously expensive malformed inbred cats.
And dog owners who adopted or rescued
Found on the streets of South Dallas with glaucoma in her now surgically removed eye, happy as ever and would still fetch all day if she could.
The adoption fee at my shelter is $150 for dogs. Dogs are chipped, fixed, and up-to-date on vaccines. The day my wife and I adopted our guy, they were taking a hundred bucks off the adoption fee for large dogs. We walked in expecting to adopt a small dog, but the one we wanted to meet was adopted out and left ten minutes before we got there. So we went and looked at the other dogs. And then we stumbled across this big guy in the back of his cage, head cocked to the side, ears way too big for his head, not making a sound. My wife tells the staff she wants to meet him. We spent a whole 90 minutes trying to coax him out from under chairs. He was terrified.
Naturally, we took him home. And here he is an hour after getting there.
He stayed under my desk for the next three days.
He goes to the park once or twice a day, daycare once a week, and was in weekly group training for four months. He is so so so much more confident now. It’s been just the most rewarding thing watching him come out of his shell.
Bonus: Here he is a couple weeks ago being murdered to death by one of the puppies at the park.
We’ve had him for about a year. He turns 2 in a few months.
Absolutely adorable. What a cool little guy
being murdered to death
Is this an EpicNate reference or somenhing you came up with? Anyway, nice one and lovely story you have there :)
D’awwww
All that and we dont have his name???!!
His name is Sherlock. Here’s a different post of him. He’s mostly Pit Bull, but he also has some Chow Chow, Boxer, German Shepherd, and Husky.
There are two stray dogs that were dropped off by some random prick at our local city park sometime back around April or so. They appear to be some sort of mix between Beagle, Terrier, Dachshund, something like that.
The police are aware of them and sometimes come to check on them and even bring them treats. Animal control can’t seem to catch them, nor does it seem like they’re really even trying.
We can’t adopt them, both because apartment rules forbid pets, plus they really need a good open fenced in yard to run around and play. But me and my roommate have been going out to the park almost every day to feed them, pet them and clean them up at least.
We’re not the only people helping them either, numerous other regular park visitors are also helping out, within their means anyways. We talk around to see if anyone can hopefully adopt them to a forever home one day.
So far no dice there, but the pups are doing much better than when they were dropped off now. I’m starting to think the smaller of the two might have worms, but one of the regular park visitors that loves dogs said he’s gonna get them some worm medicine soon.
I dunno what else to do really. We can’t adopt them, apartment rules ya know, but until they find a forever home, we’re doing our best to care for them, within our means anyways.
Fish a cat out of a dumpster with a piece of shrimp on a string, it’s not hard
Exist near a barn in the spring.
Like there aren’t cats for many thousands too?
One does not simply find a cat on the street…
…the cat finds you
I love the Cat Distribution System. It’s how I got my cat.
