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When nytimes.com put out a request for reader’s dog photos last month, I enthusiastically found the very best photo of Hank. I submitted my photo and patiently waited to see a picture of Hank Spank SanClements published in the New York Time (online edition but still it’s the NYTimes). I couldn’t wait to show people that my dog was the best and his photo in NYTimes would prove it.
But, when the piece was finally published there was no picture of Hank. I couldn’t believe it. How could this happen? There must have been a mistake?
My dog did not make the cut.
Like Hank so many other dogs do not make the cut, but worse the adoption cut. There are approximately 74.8 million owned dogs in the United States and only 10% of these dogs were adopted from a shelter. Approximately 4 million adoptable dogs & cats are killed each year due mainly to overpopulation.
Shelter pets are the best pets and Hank is proof. When you adopt from a shelter you are not only saving a life; you are making a friend. North Shore Animal league launched a new education campaign to let the general public know that Mutt-i-grees (mixed-breed dogs) make great pets and are the right choice.
Adopting a mutt-i-gree or even a purebred from an overcrowded shelter makes the statement that it is unacceptable and wrong to buy a puppy from a pet store that’s supplied by the cruel purebred puppy mills. So if your thinking of adding a furry friend to your family, make the right choice and contact your local animal shelter. Adopt an animal that needs your help today. You too could have a mutt-i-gree like Hank.
http://www.adoptapet.com/
