When you want a pet, there are several ways to get one. Before you begin your search for a pet, you have to prepare your home and yourself. A pet needs to be cared for, and looked after. Hence, you must have your home ready for bringing in one more member to your household. Whether it is a puppy or a kitten, cat or a dog, each one needs love and affection to cohabit with you.
There are ways to acquiring free pets and the discussion ahead shall reveal five strategies to do that successfully.
Search Petfinder.com: This website is by far the largest database for adoptable pets. They have several pets and a proper procedure with regard to pet adoption. You can go through the pet catalogue and find out about different types of animals, which are well trained. Mostly pets that are required to be sent to a new home are available free of cost.
Local Animal Shelter or Pet Rescue Shelter: There are several animal shelters spread across a city or town. Free pets are available at these centers. These animal shelters are mostly non profit organizations, and some of them charge a nominal fee for a pet sometimes. However, if you can negotiate with them properly, that can also be waived off.
Acquire a Guide Dog: Another fantastic strategy to acquire a free pet is to get a 'guide dog' or 'seeing eye dog'. These can be obtained free of cost, and can be trained to become your protector and friend. Normally these pets are retained by blind people, but you can always adopt these kinds of dogs, and keep them as your pets.
Create a Virtual Pet: If your efforts to get a real pet fail, then you can get a virtual free pet. A virtual pet is also a wonderful company. The best part is that you can experiment more with these virtual free pets than the real ones. Neopets.com and Adoptme.com are nice platforms to acquire free virtual pets and is your lowest cost option to enter into pet ownership. You can practice here until you feel you are confident that you will be a responsible owner to your pet.
Search Craigslist: If you have used Craigslist.com before and it is localized for the city you live in you can check if people added a post to give away free puppies, kittens, etc. Navigate to the "For Sale" menu section and search on the keywords "free pets", "pets", "free puppies", "free kittens", etc. If you are lucky you might find someone who is offering free adoption of their new litter to move the pets to a new home. Even if you cannot find someone willing part ways with their pets without adequate compensation then at least the price will be reasonable especially when owners are trying to sell through Craigslist.com. There is always a general rule of thumb that people looking through Craiglist.com are looking for reasonable prices and deals. Given the informalities of engaging in a buyer and seller relationship do not feel that you cannot attempt to negotiate a lower price. You also want to be cognizant that if you are getting a pet from Craigslist such as a puppy or a kitten chances are it has not received its vaccinations. It depends on how many weeks old the animal is. Most veterinarians are recommending to a combination vaccine to your puppies and kittens around six weeks old along with boosters every three weeks until the pet reaches 16 weeks of age. After six weeks your pets will be able to reach 100% immunity from the vaccinations. If the owner has already taken the pet in for its vaccines then the owner will most likely ask you to cover the costs of the vaccinations before the pet becomes yours.
Bernard H. Yao invites you to http://www.petsinfoplace.com dedicated to sharing useful information on raising happy and healthy home pets to the online community. Come on by for more great updates on the Dogs Information Articles.
沒有留言:
張貼留言