Why do you advocate “adopting instead of buying” stray animals?

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Hello everyone, I am Ba Xiaowan. I have been discussing stray animals with my friends in the past few days. When I mentioned stray animals, I thought of the topic of "adopting instead of buying". Why do we always advocate adoption instead of buying? ? Or do you just take it literally? So what is the ultimate goal of adopting instead of buying?

"Adopt instead of buy." This is a concept imported from the West. Animals are not divided into noble and noble classes. Stray animals are also animals, and more stray animals need care. It also advocates the equality of all living beings without distinction between high and low. Secondly, it is to reduce the mass breeding of breeds of dogs because as long as they are bought, they are bought and sold. The more pet dogs there are, the more stray dogs there will be, especially in a country like China that advocates brands and bloodlines. Popular Husky, Samoyed, Golden Retriever, Corgi, Teddy are very popular among young people. Dog dealers try their best to breed dogs in order to make money. However, those who say they like dogs may not always be able to raise good dogs. Countless dogs are lost or abandoned by their owners every day. After all, many people keep cats and dogs just for the sake of watching other people walking their dogs to be cool, so they buy one themselves. They don’t know how to teach the dog when they bring it home, and they don’t have the patience to train the dog to bark and bark at home. In the end, they can’t stand it and either abandon it or abandon it. There are so many things like giving away people, so there are more and more stray cats and dogs.

Adoption instead of purchase resists this unhealthy industrial chain to a certain extent, and also finds a home for stray animals. Stray animals outside have a great impact on the environment. Cats have a high ability to hunt birds and reproduce at an alarmingly fast rate. Dogs are also considered by some to be potentially dangerous. If a solution is proposed, which is to kill them all with a stick or poison them all, some people will definitely applaud, and some people will definitely oppose it. Why not choose a middle ground? “Adopt instead of buy, sterilize instead of kill.” Adoption instead of purchase is to hope that our little human companions like cats and dogs, who are very humane, will not be commodified and weaken this industry chain as much as possible. I hope that meeting them is because of fate, rather than opening your wallet and picking them casually. In this way It can also help small animals filter out irresponsible owners.

Let’s think about another question, what if “adoption instead of purchase” is changed to “adoption and sterilization”?

Essentially, almost all stray animals in cities were once domestic pets, or at least they are the offspring of unneutered domestic pets. As far as cats and dogs are concerned, there is no essential difference between them and the non-breed cats and dogs you can buy. Wild animals have been domesticated as domestic pets and are no longer adapted to survive in the wild. On the other hand, stray pets themselves should not exist. Although the emergence of a large number of stray cats and dogs in cities is inevitable, it is still a mistake, and the responsibility for this mistake lies with people. These stray pets, especially cats and dogs in groups, seriously damage the ecological environment of cities and surrounding cities, threaten the survival of small wild animals, often interfere with the daily lives of some residents for a long time, and even pose a threat to the personal safety of residents; Of course, their own living conditions are usually extremely miserable.

In summary, the benefit of "adopting and neutering" is that it directly changes the tragic fate of a stray pet from a small perspective; from a large perspective, when adoption and sterilization reaches a certain scale, it can reduce straying The number of animals will reduce the damage caused by stray animals to the natural environment around the city, reduce the interference of stray animals on the lives of ordinary residents, and will also reduce the dislike of some residents towards stray animals and indirectly improve the situation of the remaining unadopted stray animals.

As for future pet owners, if they do not have a clear favorite pet in mind, it is recommended to seek adoption and sterilize them first; for stray pet groups, send them to rescue centers for adoption. If one day "adoption instead of purchase" is successfully implemented and implemented, human civilization will be considered a big step forward!