adopting??

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About why shelters charge for their dogs, besides helping to pay for their care and expenses, there is another important reason. If they were to just give the dogs away, a percentage of them would soon wind up back on the streets, or worse, be used for dog-fighting bait.

Anyone who cares enough to pay to adopt a dog is not likely to abandon it again, but will make every effort to give it a good home.

Anytime I see an ad for a dog being offered "free to good home", it saddens me because I know the chances for a happy life for that dog are not very good. Anything free is usually not valued very highly.

Dottie

[Roxyluvsme13]

My shelters vary greatly. The one nearest me charges $85 for unspayed females, $75 for unneutered males, and for Cats, $55 unneautered males, $65, unspayed females. If they're spayed they're $20 for dogs, cats, males, females. They also currently have in some bunnies, and I'd love to volunteer there, but I'm not old enough. In another shelter in the area, you pay for their spay, neuter, and as soon as the Procedure is done they refund your money! If the dog or cat is already spayed or neutered, they're FREE.