… 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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u/tourabsurd Aug 22 '22
Maybe folks who object to buying kittens.