“ Furry Fortress of Deals” Have you ever wanted to shop for your furry friends, and try to get the most bang for ones’ buck? Realizing that those plastic little toys are not going to last throughout the week. By time you get home and give your pet those $80 dollar pet supplies that they are destroyed in 5 minutes. Petsmart is the best store to shop for pet supplies. The supplies at Petsmart make it the best store to shop at because of the different departments, huge selections, and great prices.
In the article “The Last Meow” by Burkhard Bilger he states that our love for our pets has gotten out of control. I agree with his argument because I believe that we do spend too much on our pets. I think that we spent too much money that is not necessary. There are basic things you need to buy for your pets like food and shots but other things are just over bored. It states in the article that we spend 11 billion in veterinary care alone.
Make that decision based on the facts. Unfortunately, most dogs are in shelters because people did not put any thought into their new pet. Doing your research can save more than your sanity in the long run, it could save the life of a dog. Most shelters can only keep dogs for a short period of time before they are euthanized, because of the high numbers of pets in these shelters. This is just the beginning of the research you should be doing before deciding on your new pet.
AAT also assists people with depression to have a greater self-worth. Animal contact has been proven with cardiac patients to lower their stress levels, blood pressures, and cholesterol levels. Animal assisted therapy (AAT), is it a benefit or a detriment to humans overall wellbeing? Eighty-five percent of pet owners regard their pets as members of the family (Cohen2002). Many pet lovers/owners will state they receive much more from their pet then just love.
The puppies are sold wholesale to the pet industry after they are born into filth from unhealthy mothers who have been born into puppy mills themselves. Often bred with diseases and many other disabilities, they spend their whole lives in wire cages often losing limbs and living amongst their own feces with only one purpose; to breed. These cruel facilities have been
There are lots of people who are unaware of puppy mills and what they do, because of this they can help contribute towards them without realising that they are. Contribution towards puppy mills and puppy farms is simply done by purchasing puppies from the pet shop. A puppy mill can have anywhere between 200 to 300 female dogs and 50 male dogs which are forced to breed to create puppies to sell to pet shops. The dogs are kept in confined cages their whole life and never
Of course, back at the farm the unlucky ones would still be suffering. The mother of that kitten would still be imprisoned in some tiny cage, already given birth to her next litter. And perhaps there were actually a few more of those cute little puppies originally, but they were kept as well, just to keep the breeding program going, doomed to a lifetime of enslavement and captivity. The thing is, when you go to a pet shop and ask about their animals, none of this is explained to you. They’ll be labelled as pure-bred, pedigree animals from supposedly “registered” breeders, and usually the customer is completely oblivious to their pet’s sinister background.
Mill dogs may live exclusively outside, where they are exposed to environmental conditions which harm them, or conversely live entirely indoors in cages. Because dogs at puppy mills are racked with health problems, their healthy lives and breeding years tend to be significantly shorter than those of other dogs. (ASPCA) This problem, coupled with the limited space at puppy mills commonly results in mass euthanasia once the dogs move past the age where they can sustain the rate of overactive production at which they are expected to
The primary way of the spreading of MRSA in the community is thru unwashed hands. The family pet is one of the recently discovered means of transmission. One case study was using pet therapy in visiting gerontology wars at hospitals. Also transmission of MRSA with equipment in athletic facilities. Patient education in the home setting is very important.
But, it emphasizes the cooperation of communities as a whole to become no-kill. Yes, this is an even larger aspect to tackle than simply just turning shelters away from the “dark side,” but it actually makes full sense once the article is read. The article basically states the same things as above about how no-kill shelters tend to inadvertently dump loads of left over animals onto other shelters for them to deal with: “[C]hoosing to be limited admission by limiting the number of animals you accept, then touting yourself as "no kill" while leaving other rescues to deal with the animals you didn't accept only divides the animal welfare community...which in the end is bad for the animals.” ("KC Dog Blog,"