Fostering animals is a great way to give back to your community. Fostering animals from shelters is a great way to get your foot into the door for getting a pet. Fostering helps when animal shelters are too full, animals are recovering from surgeries, and even if they are not old enough to go to homes. No matter if they are puppies or older dogs, they still need fostered. Sometimes fostering is for the pet to learn how to be an actual pet. Animals in shelters may have never gotten actual love from kind people. Sometimes foster parents end up following in love with their dog and even end up keeping it. This is another plus of fostering, you either give them a forever home or make sure they go to a forever home. Shelters often run out of room for dogs. When shelters run out of them they either find foster home, but some of the older dogs will be euthanized Animal euthanasia is the act of putting an animal to death or allowing it to die by withholding extreme medical measures. There are many different animals that you can foster, the varieties do range. Maybe you do not want to foster a dog, cats are always a great choice. Cats require little maintenance and might be more fit to your schedule. The best thing of all is that you are saving a life. You are giving another chance at life for animals who may have never felt what love is. Many of the animals end up in shelters to no fault of their own.
Adoption is good for both the animal and the owner. When you adopt an animal it gives them a new home that they have deserved. Adoption gives the owner a sense of what the animal has gone through. In turn, helps you understand the way the animal may act and can help find ways to train them. People who adopt are better than those that shop. Not only are you saving money but you are going to get a healthy dog. Animal shelters rescue and get dogs back to go good health so they can find their forever home. Many people think because the dogs are in shelters that something is wrong with them, that is not true. As for saving money, all dogs have been checked by a vet and are relatively cheap when purchasing at a shelter verse a pet store, or breeder. When adopting you are saving a life. If people stop buying from breeders and adopt the percents of stray dogs will decrease. Many dogs that are bought from breeders end up on the street because whoever got them can not provide for them and they were more responsibility than they had thought. Each year 2.7 million adoptable dogs get euthanized only because shelters are overcrowded. (“Animal Shelter Euthanasia”). People do not realize that their choice not to spay or neuter their animal is causing millions of animals to be euthanized every year in the United States. Only one in six shelter animals will find a new home (Why You Should Adopt a Shelter Animal). This statistic shocks greatly. If people were more educated on neutering and spaying there would not be as many dogs getting put down. There are far too many homeless pets than there are loving homes to care for them. When you adopt from a shelter, you save a life and free up a cage for another animal in need. Your money goes towards running the shelter, pet education, and spay/neuter surgery. Lets not forget you gain a loving companion too!
Dog are very good for our mental health. Studies have shown that when you have a pet such as a dog your mood get better. Dogs are also very good service dogs for this reason. Dogs give unconditional love and that is why they help one to psychologically feel better. Dogs are also great when it comes to improving the physical health of their owners. Scientists have done research that spending time with one’s dog lowers your blood pressure and lowering one’s cholesterol level.(“Six Ways Dogs Can Improve Your Health”) Walking your dog or even grooming is physical activity, which can help strengthen both hearts and bone tissues. Dogs can also ease anxiety as well. A study was done at a doctors office during two visits of kids ages 3-6. The first visit was with a dog in the room that they didn’t know and they have lower blood pressure, lower behavior distress, and a lower heart rate. The second visit the dog was removed from the setting and the children showed higher levels of heart rate, blood pressure, and behavior issues. (“The Benefits of Pets for Human Health”Dana Casciotti, PhD, and Diana Zuckerman, PhD, National Center for Health Research) With that being said, dogs are not just pets but are beneficial in many ways.
One big misconception is Puppy Mills. Not all puppy mills are unsafe, but a majority of the puppies in these mills are torchered, in poor condition, and not taken care of. Many dogs are inbred within puppy mills because the one thing they are about is making money. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, says illness, disease, and little or no socialization with humans as well as other animals, are common characteristics of dogs from puppy mills. Female dogs are bred at every chance that they get and if they are no longer able to have puppies they are usually left abandoned or killed. (www.aspca.org) Many dogs from puppy mills are diagnosed with hip dysplasia and heart muscle disease due to over breeding and not caring about the genetics of the puppies. Those are not the only diseases they get diagnosed with, there are many more. Dogs in puppy mills go through so much pain for no reason. Many dogs in puppy mills are in tiny kennels living in their own filth, many don’t even get to see daylight or get proper exercise. Puppy Mills are trying to be shut down and many animal rights activist are trying their best but it starts as little as not purchasing from puppy mills. If nobody buys from puppy mills then they have no way to keep making money. By purchasing these dogs people are financially supporting these inhumane mills, through adoption and other solutions puppy mills can be stopped and more importantly banned for good. Many of the mills do not have air conditioning or heat so the dogs are left to deal with the elements. The largest mills are in the west, where temperatures range from below zero to above one hundred, killing hundreds of dogs. Many of the dogs that breed are underweight because the food they are given is not nutritional. Female dogs start breeding as soon as they reach of age until they die. It does not matter if the female is unhealthy or not because she is forced to breed anyway. Puppy mills are overall really bad. Animals are treated terribly, due to no fault of their own. Many of these dogs are emotionally and physically abused to where they might become aggressive of people.
Adopting a family pet from local humane societies often saves the animal from euthanasia, stops overcrowding, helps your mental health, and also discourages the practice of breeding animals for profit. Adopting a dog from a shelter or rescue has many benefits. Shelter and rescue groups offer many dogs in different size, color, and age, so your options are endless. Personally, all animals, no matter what age, as long as they are healthy and gentle, are “adoptable.” The excuse that the animal is not young or cute enough has no support, seeing as many ages and kinds of animals are adopted all the time. Many people are not willing to give shelter dogs a chance but they do not realizing you are giving a loving creature another chance at life. Lets not forget the important lesson that comes with recusing or fostering a dog. You learn respect for this creature because more than most of the time dogs and cats end up at shelters do to no fault of their own except for having an irresponsible owner. With that being said before you go out and get your first pooch, please consider adopting. Dogs are a mans best friend, and as long as you treat them good they will be good to you. Do not forget adopting a dog or fostering one is a very rewarding experience. If you are not ready to adopt, fostering is a great idea.
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