Adopt, Don't Shop: Wholesome Stories Of People Adopting The 'Cheapest' Animal At The Shelter And Loving Every Second Of It

Adopting a pet is the most pawmazing experience in the world. Having a little creature live in your house, cuddle you when you're sad, make you laugh by accidentally running top speed into a wall every once in a while… it's everything that we need. We don't care how many couches our dogs eat or how many times our cats zoom right across our face when we're sleeping or how often our parrots try to launch themselves directly into a bowl of soup… life would be boring without them.

Adopting a pet is lifechanging, and it doesn't matter whether that pet comes from a breeder that asks 500$ for it or from a trashcan behind your building. In fact, sometimes, getting that trashcan kitty or puppy, gaining their trust, and then being loved unconditionally by them until the end of time is even more special. Adopt, don't shop - that's the motto. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. It doesn't mean that there isn't some trashcan puppy out there in need of help.

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People can tell us all they want to that buying some expensive, rare animal is more satisfying than getting one for cheap or for free or than finding one on the street and rescuing it, but we will never believe them. Not really. Our little goblin trashcan kitty cat is the best thing that has ever happened to us, and she was wholly free.
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We fully believe you. And we have to say that we love how all of the animal people on Twitter jumped on this opportunity to flaunt and show love to all of their pawmazing adopted animals. This is the kind of stuff that we want to see more of on Twitter - wholesome, pawfect, and undeniably pure.
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