Where Do Shelter Pets Come From?

 

• Strays
• Roaming pets who have owners, but who live outside become stray pets
• People who don't spay or neuter their pets and then those pets have babies who then become strays 
• Abandoned pets become strays
• Lost pets who don't have an ID become strays 

• Moving
• People who don't want to take their pets with them leave them behind 
• People who don't want to or can't pay the pet deposit for their new residence take their pets to a shelter
• People who don't want a pet in their new house take their pets to a shelter

• People who have a baby
• If the pet isn't good with the baby, people will take the pet to a shelter
• If they don't have time for their pet because of a baby that pet may end up in a shelter
• They may put their pet outside or in the back yard and the pet may not like it, so they take it to a shelter 

• People may find they don't have time for a pet
• You can't ignore a pet
• You can't leave a pet alone a long time while you travel

• The pet is no longer a puppy or kitten
• The pet is too big now
• The pet is not cute anymore
• The pet fit in my house when they were small, but now they are too big
• The pet is mean to children
• The pet misbehaves by chewing on things, making noise at night and day, making a mess with its urine/feces, or it tries to run away. 

• My children have lost interest in the pet or the I expected the children to do all the work with the pet

• Elderly pet owners
• Sometimes they die or have to go into a nursing home
• They don't have a will that tells who is supposed to take care of a pet

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