• burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 months ago

    I’m trying to think here… I think dog #1 was found next to the dumpster of an apartment complex. Dog #2 was from a shelter and had been picked up next to the dumpster of an apartment complex. Dog #3 was from a stray that whelped underneath someone’s trailer home and everyone who knew the homeowner pitched in to help adopt out the pups. All great dogs, aside from #1 who was pretty territorial.

    Meanwhile, my aunt bought a breeder dog (a white lab), and that was also an amazing dog with a lot of health issues. I think she paid bookus for it, so I’m on top of that particular fight.

  • Nougat@fedia.io
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    2 months ago

    Got my first cat because he showed up at my dad’s gas station acting like he owned the place.

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    2 months ago

    The cat distribution system works in mysterious ways. I don’t have a cat, but when i worked in pet stores, i heard all the stories.

    Now for me? It’s a dog distribution system cause i tend to find my puppies in the most odd circumstances and if i had left the place one minute earlier or later, i would never have gotten the awesome pup i have now.

  • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    My first cat was my grandmother’s purebred Russian blue cat. She moved in with us when I was a kid and brought her Russian blue and Scottish fold. The Russian blue became mine and the Scottish fold welded herself to my mother. Poor grandmother, both her cats abandoned her!

    Most memorable acquisition was playing rpgs at someone’s home. A whip thin cat runs out, eyes as big as dinner plates, scared.

    What a lovely cat! I say. Because it’s a cat. I love all cats the second I view them.

    Everyone who lived there turned and said at the same time

    DO YOU WANT HER

    And that’s how we brought home a cat

    I miss her

    She was the best cat known to humans.

  • iamericandre@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Man that article can fuck off, there are tons of dogs in shelters that need homes instead of buying a dog from a shit bag breeder

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      2 months ago

      Tried it twice. Couldn’t get a dog from the shelter. Why? We weren’t married. (?) The both of us worked 4 days. We had a child.

      So we shrugged it off, waved and snuggled with the sad doggies and never came back.

      And we just bought a puppy. No rules. No problems. Now, 20+ years later we’re on to our third very happy dog.

      Anyway: a lot of shelters do their best to scare people away. And they succeed.