Is your cat/dog a designer pet, or a saved SPCA/abandonded pet?
by 
Kiwi girl aka jeanie16
ANSWERS: 12
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Oreo's a farm dog. Or rather, his mother is.
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Well, if Beagles are designer pets, I guess he is one. He is a lot like his namesake, Snoopy, though. He is a "very peculiar" dog. (lol) He is twelve, now, and I think he believes he is older than I am and knows how the place should run better than me. He lets me know this often....
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She is a dog we got from a pet rescue organization ... her former owners had to surrender her .. sadly.
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We have six cats. Two were lost and as much as we tried, we could not locate owners. They have been with us now for 14 and 9 years. Our 2 three yr olds came from a litter born in my sisters garage ~ a stray who turned up 24 hours earlier and found her forever home with my sister and her family. Our youngest two are only 7 months old, and they were born under my bed along with their siblings, to a dumped pregnant white cat who, her self is now living with my parents and their neighbours. Our cats find us :)
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Our little poodle mix was rescued from a puppy mill. We got him through a rescue organisation.
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Tigger was a discard..a throw-away. He was abandoned and found us. We used to live in an apartment complex where there were multiple strays. We always fed them and provided water. At one point we had 4 different cats showing up. Tigger is the only one who stayed. So when we moved we brought him along with us. He is very smart and very well-behaved and immensely entertaining and funny. Happy Wednesday! :) ((hugs))
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There's a whole lot of choices between these two. I don't like designer pets, they don't serve any purpose other than to look like something or to be different from other people's pet. But I do like dogs that have been bred for a real purpose, with long history of breed improvement, breeding healthy dogs, sound dogs, good temperament. For dogs, we've gotten Newfoundlands since 1979 from private breeders, always seeing both parents and making arrangements for the pup often before it's even born, visiting during it's puppyhood and being given the once over in countless interviews with the breeders, having our home approved by them. For cats, we've always gotten them from rescue organizations and shelters, sometimes they wander into our yard and we immediately alter them so they will not increase the cat population. I prefer small independent shelters rather than the huge SPCA because I feel the SPCA is too much into the business end of it and have lost some of their focus. If there were no surplus of animals they would be out of business and they know it.
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My Chihuahuas were given to me by a friend when I was in High School - either I took them or they went to the pound. So I saved them and let me tell you, they're so worth it! I love them all to bits!
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All but one of my cats were stray kittens people dumped in our yard. The other one was being given away in front of a store. The lizard was rescued from an abusive home.
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Both. Our dogs are purebreds who were dumped. One was probably the offspring of a puppy farm bitch who was covered both by their stud and a neighborhood stray. She showed up on someone's porch and promptly had eight pups. There were two puppy mills in walking distance, so that is probably where she came from. The litter was mixed, six looked purebred and two were obvious mongrels. My guess is they booted her out when they saw her tied with a mutt. We took one of those pups. We have a beautiful but lazy Beagle who was dumped after Thanksgiving. We got him from the pound. He was probably a failed hunting dog who didn't perform on a Thanksgiving day hunt. All the cats came from various rescues and shelters.
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They were not saved from SPCA but we saved them from the abuse that was being done to them by the pet shop we bought them from.
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Saved! :D
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