Why I love pet talk.

**carole** · 03-05-2008, 02:25 PM

You know the way i look at it, those animals in pet stores need homes too, if everyone adopts from shelters, then they will be left, i am often so tempted when people are in the pet shop thinking of buying a kitten to tell them go to the shelter, because they cost a lot less for one and they are more responsible and give out spaying/neutering vouchers, which only one big pet store in my city does, the rest are so irresponsible and it angers me a lot,but then i look at the adorable kitten they are thinking of taking, and i keep quiet, it deserves a home just as much, not it's fault it comes from breeders or other irresponsible people who let their cats breed,anyhow that is my take on it.

so don't feel bad.

As far as pet talk goes, it is simply THE BEST,there are no comparisons IMO,i have no need or desire to join any other pet forum on the net ever,here i am amongst true family and friends.

**JuniorxMyxLove** · 03-05-2008, 06:34 PM

Yeah! I mean if you buy a guinea pig from a store...you're sort of rescuing :] I mean you're taking them home with you anyways! And if breeders can't sell their pigs to pet stores because no ones buying from pet stores, then they'd send them to a rescue anyways..right?

**carole** · 03-05-2008, 09:13 PM

Maybe even a worse scenario would eventuate as the shelter's would become full, they are now even,so you can imagine the end result.

**buttercup132** · 03-05-2008, 09:36 PM

And if breeders can't sell their pigs to pet stores because no ones buying from pet stores, then they'd send them to a rescue anyways..right?

No they would stop breeding them. They aren't breeding for the sake of breeding they are breeding for money. By sending them to shelters they aren't making money. Sometimes shelters even charge a fee to drop the animals off so they would be loosing money.

If you leave the animals in the pet store the same thing goes, they will stop breeding if people stop buying.

I don't think message boards should be bashing you for already owning those animals though. There are alot of people here who have got their animals from byb's and pet stores and some people who still do and they don't get bashed.

**carole** · 03-06-2008, 02:06 PM

I can only speak about pet stores in NZ, they are not all from breeders here, they take them to the pet shop, and i don't know if they are even given any money for them, most of them are from people who just have not bothered to spay their animals, we do of course have some pedigree's as well, and they are specifically bred to sell too, but a majority are just as i have mentioned, so that won't stop people letting their cats and dogs breed i am afraid.