Don't Shop, Adopt! Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to consider adopting a pet from a shelter instead of buying one elsewhere. Central Idea: Adopting an animal from the shelter has many benefits for not only you but also for animals. INTRODUCTION I. (Attention) Approximately 8 million animals enter shelters every year. And, roughly 2.6 million dogs and cats are killed in U.S. shelters annually. ("Statistics", n.d.) II. (Reveal Topic) Just hearing those statistics is alarming to me, this is why I feel everyone should consider adopting not shopping for pets. III. (Relevancy) My audience gaining knowledge on the benefits of adopting animals will give the audience a new perspective on where to go when looking for an animal and possibly …show more content…
This choice will make you feel better that you gave an animal a home, helped other animals and saved money. Transition: Now that I have gave you all the benefits I wanted to touch on that come with adopting not shopping, I hope you are understanding why this topic is so important to me and many others and why I want you and everyone else to use this alternative to pet stores and mills when purchasing an animal. Next, I will explain how you can adopt. IV. Let's say you are going to adopt an animal from a shelter. A. You go through with the adoption process 1. You have a healthy animal. 2. You saved yours and other animals lives. 3. You did not support puppy mills. B. You buy an animal from a pet store/ other seller. 1. You support the inhumane practice of pet stores/mills. 2. Animals in shelters are euthanized because of overcrowding. 3. Your animal lives in poor conditions that lead to health conditions. V. Adopting from a shelter is easy. A. Follow these steps and you can get your desired animal. 1. Find a humane society or other shelter in your area. 2. Pick what animal you want. 3. Visit or look online for the available pets at the shelter. 4. Meet the pet. 5. Complete adoption paperwork and pay fees. 6. Take your pet
She knows from expirience and reading books that animals could be adopted too. Paco is a nice dog. He does not bite and is very friendly.
Animals that are not adopted are kept in shelters until they find a home.
"Pet Overpopulation"). The majority of pets never see their family members again. "26% of dogs are purchased from breeders. 20-30% of cats and dogs are adopted from shelters and rescues, and 2-10% are purchased from pet shops” (PAWS. "Pet Overpopulation").
The Last Meow Persuasive Essay Americans now are spending way too much money on their pets. In our society, people nowadays are going overboard on what they consider necessary for their animals. People are spending money in the thousands just for their pets to have a few more months of agony and pain. Some people even care more about their animals over their own family.
I have done research and read articles from animal welfare organizations to understand more about this topic. I discovered that not everyone think that puppy mill is inhumane due to the matter of profit that they can earned. Hence, my job today is to persuade those who are having this thinking that puppy mills should be put
Once an animal is bought at an animal shelter, they money from you goes straight to the original puppy mill without you knowing. When an animal shelter doesn?t have enough room for all of their animals, they turn to putting them down or letting them free. In often times, no kill shelters are the ones who let these poor animals go. (Vanden Brook) In this speech I?ve told you about how to stop these awful puppy mills from continuing to scam you.
Firstly, any new animals dropped off in the shelter system can skip the entire stressful process of shelter life and go right to you. Secondly, taking in that animal that needs an extra boost to understand what it is like to be in a loving home environment, something that they may not have been able to receive in the shelter, may turn an “unadoptable” pet around. Animals who have been shown this kind of love and appreciation after their hardships, I believe can make the best pets around. I have personally fostered a kitten named Twizzler and it was such a rewarding experience to both myself and to her since she is now adopted. Additionally, I got to become more involved with the community as I am now an official member of Conrad’s Strays and have even been invited to multiple fundraiser events and adoption fairs to help more animals in need.
The current issue concerning my CORE program would have to be over populated shelters. My view point would be this true in almost every shelter around Oklahoma and many other States you hear about how they are needing families to adopt these animals to help avoid the animals to being put down. There is so many backyard breeders that just keeps adding more and more to the over crowed shelters. Step Two: According to google American Humane is one of the founding members of the National Council on Pet Population Study and Policy.
According to the Adoption Network Law Center, “It is important to understand why you want to adopt and what your lifestyle will allow you to realistically be able to do in an adoption” (Adoption process,
II. Body Paragraph- So what is adoption in real life?
If we donate to the ASPCA, then you can adopt our own pet from the animal shelters. This is why we should donate to the
Review of Main Points: You will save money while still obtaining a new companion who has probably never ever known how it feels to have a home and to be loved. Also, by adopting from the Humane Society or animal shelter, you are not supporting the puppy mill industry or other cruel facilities in any way. Reaffirm Central Idea: Without the money that those facilities make from the sales of their animals, they will have no further choice but to stop their practices. The overpopulation of strays on our streets can easily be reduced if you choose the best option!
They are unlikely to be adopted, unlikely to be loved. Forced to just sit and wait for a lifetime, a cough announcing their death, a whimper calling their descent into despair. This is the unfortunate truth for shelters; shelter animals did not choose this life, so why should we make them live it? There is a common saying a quote first voiced by Karen Davison that fits the situation beautifully, “Saving one dog will not change the world, but surely for that one dog, the world will change forever.” One does not even have to adopt to change the world for an animal, doing a simple task, as simple of one as taking a dog outside and walking it; that will make all the difference.
Single parent adoption can result in several benefits for both the adopter and the adopted. A. The benefits of the adoption procedure by single parents on the abandoned children. 1. The welfares of adoption can be touched by a uncountable number of individuals all over the world, as approximately everybody has been affected by adoption in some kind of way. Neighbors, friends, families– not only a family is formed but also the young abandoned individual will have a Life secured for him and will be able to live with people that picked to cherish and love them.
Shelters currently hold pets beyond their originally designed capacity. Pets get dropped off or picked up off the streets for so many reasons. Animals get taken to, or not taken from shelters because they are either strays, victims of abuse, present behavioral issues, left behind due to family moving, abandon from different family experiences, not bought from overpricing, or the family had no time for it. All of which result in psychological effects of trust issues, loneliness, feeling unloved, anxiety, and