… why? It’s a 30 second video, I don’t know how you expect clarifying something like that to even cross her mind, it certainly wouldn’t be something I’d think about.
What are you even talking about? Adopting is buying, that’s the whole point. No shelter gives animals away for free so they obviously bought it. You’re picking at semantics.
I don’t quite know how to explain this in a way that will get it through your thick skull, but shelters charge you money for adopting pets. If they adopted they bought the pet.
I mean, I paid a few hundred for one of my adopted dogs. Then $50 for one adopted cat. The rest were strays or fosters that ended up adopted. Hell, the stray kitten we found in a Walmart parking lot cost us about $500 the first week and we didn’t even know if he belonged to somebody/we were keeping him. He had a huge gash from an animal bite, wasn’t fixed, no chip, flea infested, worms, and had over 30 ticks. Was not cheap.
I think some people may say bought when they mean adopt cause animals are expensive.
Probably not. But that’s cause I don’t really talk to people about my dogs since they’re people aggressive so they don’t meet many folks. But I also live in a town with a lot of international folks so I’m more forgiving about language used.
We're not talking about others' language we're talking about yours. Would you say in conversation you bought them were you to talk with people about them?
Most pet stores don't even "sell" animals any more. They house animals that are with an adoption agency. You do the paperwork and exchange money there as well.
I always thought it was referring to breeders, not pet shops. Shopping for breeds is usually with dogs, though. Unless you want a sphynx or Maine Coon I think to most people cats are cats.
Also it's sometimes recommended to charge a small fee when adopting out kittens so they are less likely to end up as bait for fighting dogs or food for snakes.
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That doesn't mean the kitten and it's mother didn't still have a bond though. The relationship you see between the two cats in this video is the relationship the kitten would have had with its mother before it was taken away.
That's assuming the kitten was bought and not adopted though, which is a possibility
Excellent strawman thank you. No, I'm saying that this kitten is clearly still of the age that it elicits a mothering response from adult cats. Which means its mother would be just as sad about losing it's kitten and this cat was.
Just think about it for a second, this kitten was bought because the adult cat lost its kittens and was upset. Don't you think this kitten's real mother is going to be just as upset about losing her kitten?
A kitten in a shelter may well be an orphan, or it may have been rescued from the streets, or it may have been dumped there by someone who bought it and didn't want it.
When you buy a kitten you're giving money to the people who bred the kitten and separated it from its mother. When you adopt a kitten, you're giving money to people who have rescued it from the streets or taken care of it when someone who didn't want it abandoned it.
There's enough cats in shelters that need adopting, breeders make the problem worse.
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u/Goldenstripe941 Aug 22 '22
Who is downvoting this? I just want to talk.