11/16/2025
HOLIDAY SEASON is here! Please read ALL and pass along to friends...
Pros and Cons of the
PLEASE do not purchase animals as a CHRISTMAS GIFT!
Although everyone loves a cute baby animal, they ALL GROW UP (well all except the Sand Cat). SOME OF THOSE CONS are Baby animals need more one-on-one attention, socialization, certain enclosure/confinements, life expectancy, can be really noisy, require training, some require a specific diet, medical care( shots/fixing), a lot of messes to clean up, potty times, maturing issues (bleeding and pee marking), try to avoid maturity issues with spay/neuter to early issues (growth/development issues, health/bladder issues, joint/dysplasia issue, etc.) and some require routine groomer trips starting at 6-8weeks old!!! Think of vacationing/traveling with or without (meaning additional boarding costs), Work & School schedules (sports or any extracurriculars), family allergies, family lifestyles, etc. BUT, if your family has been looking and really researching (join groups ask the real pet parents not "breeders/friends if breeders" for the pros and cons, would they do it again, what would they do differently, etc) looking into the different pets' needs, etc. that's different, it's not an impulse gift purchase, bc the person may have wanted it in the past without doing a lot of research and understanding needs. Breeders and their friends WILL LIE and tell you anything and everything to make A SALE! Puppies do NEED early groomer experience starting young even if it's just bath-brush-nail. If they personally gave the vaccines/wormer and not a veterinary can have major health issues (vaccines are temperature sensitive and do go bad quickly or not given in proper time frames) or even worse lie about giving them (yes some people will lie and bring one pup to vet and run a copy as if they all got shots or say they did and didn't or not give the proper ones). They will breed 2 dogs together no matter their health history, just because they make cute babies and they never had an issue (most people don't call their breeders and tell them the health issues they have had or breeders say they never get them). Especially the "guardian home breeders" look into that 😆 basically making others pay for the care of the parents and they take the puppies and make all the profits and still tell you their costs if why they have to charge for their pups. Most call them a glorified puppy mill. Registration papers are exactly that a piece of paper, that can also be forged and fake!!!
INSTEAD, go to a shelter/rescue and foster a pet (baby, teen, or older) for the holidays see if you can handle the new life-long routine (it's the same as taking home a new baby everything is new). Just because it's in a shelter/rescue doesn't mean trouble! Some are from pet parents passing and family members do not want the responsibility but most are from impulse buys that didn't fit their lifestyle and cause shelters and rescues to overflow because people dump on random roads, let run free(adding to the unwanted litter population), or leave at the shelter. A lot to think about but a pet is not a good impulse buy..
