Introduction

You’re in the market for a new pet, but you don’t want to buy from a puppy mill. While there are many reasons why adopting from an animal shelter is a good idea, here are five of them:

Support a shelter

If you are looking to adopt a pet, supporting an animal shelter is a great way to ensure that you are helping the animals in need. Shelters often have limited resources and rely on volunteers for help with everything from cleaning cages to finding new homes for pets.

Additionally, shelters are often run by passionate people who care deeply about animal welfare. If there is one thing that every pet has in common, it’s that they deserve love and attention from their owners.

Donating money or supplies can help support local shelters while also giving back to your community.

Stop puppy mills

Puppy mills are cruel and inhumane. They exist solely to make money, and they don’t care how they do it. The animals are kept in horrible conditions, often with little or no human interaction, forced to breed over and over again until their bodies give out. Puppies from puppy mills have a high chance of having health issues due to the poor conditions they were bred in and lack of proper nutrition or medical care.

The environment suffers too: Puppy mill dogs live their lives locked up in cages so small that they can’t even turn around or stretch their legs. When the puppies are old enough to sell, they’re taken away from their mothers (who are also kept caged) immediately after giving birth so they can be bred again—which means that thousands of dogs spend their whole lives in a cage without ever being able to play outside or run around freely like other animals do!

The people who buy from puppy mills are helping fund this cruel industry—and supporting puppy mills hurts everyone involved because it enables these businesses to continue operating without consequence!

Save a life

• Adopting a pet from an animal shelter saves a life.
• Puppies from a shelter are already vaccinated and microchipped, so you don’t have to worry about going through the hassle of getting them those things yourself, which means it’s easier for you to get started with your new pet right away.
• Shelters have tons of information on their animals, including their temperament and history. They’ll also give you advice on how to train your new pet—and they’ll even help you find local trainers or behaviorists if needed!

Puppies may already be trained

A shelter dog may already be trained. If you adopt a puppy from a shelter, chances are that the animal has been socialized and trained by their previous owners. Many shelters will even provide training classes for prospective owners, which could help them learn to train their new pet as well.

Training is important for the safety of your new pet as well as everyone around them. You’ll want to make sure they know basic commands such as “sit” or “stay”, so that they don’t run away when they’re let out in public areas where they could get lost or hurt themselves (or others).

For example, if you were to adopt an older cat at an animal shelter, he or she may already know how to use the litter box on their own but still needs plenty of love during this adjustment period!

Re-homed pets may already be housebroken, vaccinated and/or microchipped

The pets from shelters may already be housebroken, vaccinated and/or microchipped. This can save you time and money. You won’t have to go through the hassle of teaching your pet how to use the restroom in your yard or get them vaccinated again if they’ve already been vaccinated before. If they’re already housebroken, then it’s one less thing that you have to teach them!

Adopting a pet from an animal shelter is a good idea for many reasons.

Adopting a pet from an animal shelter is a good idea for many reasons.

• You can support the shelter and the work they do: your money goes directly to helping out their animals. It doesn’t go to any middlemen, like a breeder or pet store, who are likely making big profits off of the animals in their care.
• You can stop puppy mills: when you buy from a puppy mill, you’re supporting them in their cruel practices. Buying an animal from one of these places puts money right into their pockets so that they can continue pumping more and more dogs out into their filthy conditions without much thought about their welfare (aside from getting them “just enough food”). If you adopt instead of buying, however, there won’t be any more puppies being bred in horrible conditions—the cycle will end there!
• You’ll save lives: this one’s pretty obvious—by adopting instead of buying you’re saving lives! By not buying from puppy mills and encouraging others not to either (or at least considering where they get theirs), we’re all working together toward lowering demand for these animals so that fewer will be destroyed because there aren’t enough people willing to take them home.”

Conclusion

We hope that this article has given you some insight into why it’s a good idea to adopt a pet from an animal shelter instead of buying from a puppy mill. For more information on adopting pets, visit the Humane Society of the United States website here: