Sentences with phrase «dog from a shelter instead»

But before you buy, why don't you consider adopting a dog from a shelter instead?

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Instead, storefronts would need to get their dogs, cats and rabbits only from shelters, adoption centers or animal - control agencies.

The animal shelter system is making big changes, from how shelters are designed to re-training and treating negative behaviors in dogs — and even to helping people keep their dogs instead of surrendering them.

But the only way we can eradicate puppy mills completely, until the pet stores and Internet sellers clean up their act, is when people choose instead to adopt dogs from shelters, breed rescues, and responsible breeders.

Seeing as many cities have taken measures to ban the sale of mill dogs — and even helped get rescued dogs from shelters into pet shops instead — there is no reason for this industry to continue.

This means those dogs will be in a new home with a loving family instead of alone in a shelter during the last years of their lives and will allow HSC to transfer in more senior dogs from local municipal shelters.

They are instead people / groups that are obtaining pure bred, high demand dogs from shelters, only to turn around and re-sell them at a profit to unsuspecting people who adopt the dogs thinking they are getting them from a reputable rescue organization.

It could be that, very soon, places like Pets R Us and Tully's will not be able to sell dogs from mysterious breeders in faraway places, instead housing only shelter and rescue dogs.

Many successful pet stores don't sell dogs or cats; many offer adoptions from local shelters (instead of selling dogs and cats from puppy mills or commercial facilities), which is a now proven successful business model.

The laws require pet stores that offer dogs for sale to source them from shelters and rescue organizations instead of breeders.

Always adopt from an animal shelter or rescue group instead of buying a dog from a pet store.

We urge consumers to adopt pets from animal shelters or find a reputable breeder they have met and screened in person instead of fueling the demand for dogs raised in puppy mills.»

It's scary to think that as we try to improve conditions in the United States, importation of dogs from overseas is increasing because people are fixated on owning a certain breed instead of adopting a dog from a shelter or rescue organization.

Since the Obama's did not get the dog from a shelter, the Sun - Times reported, the Obamas will instead made a donation to a humane society.

Through this program, the Foundation hopes to give families adopting a new dog the basic understanding of dog psychology, so they will be able to work through problem behaviors with their new dog from day one, instead of returning the dog to the shelter when problems arise.

Instead of helping consumers or solving animal welfare problems, it creates a government - mandated monopoly making stray and unwanted dogs, and unregulated rescues and shelters the only retail source for dogs and puts legally operating pet shops with dogs from regulated breeders out of business.

But purpose - bred, purebred dogs from reputable breeders make good pets and it's time people quit feeling guilty or ashamed because they want one of those instead of a mixed breed with questionable characteristics from a shelter or rescue.

Even though not every household can take in a dog, a good portion of U.S. families still choose to purchase a pooch instead of adopting one from a local rescue or shelter.

Instead, stores would need to get their dogs, cats and rabbits only from shelters, adoption centers or animal - control agencies.

The dogs and cats in our sanctuary program have been rescued from pounds and shelters with the intention of being adopted to loving families, but after a thorough veterinary exam have been found to be in need of hospice care instead.

At the same time, around eighty percent of dog owners — almost seventy million — choose to leave those fully adoptable shelter dogs for dead, and instead contribute even further to the problem by purchasing their family pet from a breeder.

So having a more narrow focus helps us come back from the animal shelter with one dog instead of say, ten!

First and foremost, never buy a dog from a pet shop or breeder, adopt animals from local rescues and shelters instead.

Instead, they can only offer dogs, cats and rabbits from city or county shelters, humane societies or animal rescue facilities.

Even though our name says «rescue» we do not go out and rescue animals from the community; instead we provide temporary shelter (which are foster homes), medical treatment, and sterilization for homeless, stray, and abandoned cats, dogs, kittens, and puppies in New Mexico for animals that are accepted into our program.

You can help by never purchasing a dog from a pet shop and supporting your local rescue shelter instead.

Having a puppy is exciting, and from teaching a child about responsibility to wanting a «certain» type of dog, many people like to buy puppies, instead of adopting from their local shelter.

Pet lovers who thought their dogs were «rescued» from abuse or mistreatment instead took in dogs that were raised in well - socialized, healthy circumstances, purchased at auction, and then shipped to far - flung rescues and shelters.