My 2 cats are rescued from a private cat rescue organisation. My male cat Rudie has lived the first 3 years of his life in a shelter until he got rescued by us (nobody ever wanted him because he's so large and shy - but he bloomed after only 6 months). The girl cat Eddy came to live with us after she got Rudie's buddy in the shelter and I didn't want to split them up.

My dog isn't a rescue. I went to the local shelters a few times, but they were really strange and didn't want to give a dog except a so called fighting dog. (There have been many complaints about the shelters and the managements are changing now, but too late for us). I didn't want that, and so we got a pedigree Golden Retriever puppy because we knew her momma and loved her incredible nature and behavior. I don't feel bad about having a puppy who wasn't a shelter dog, because there are hardly any puppies in shelters here and we had cats with an attitude who needed a puppy to get used to.