I am with you on adopt, or rescue. In our house, two cats were adopted from the local MSPCA shelter and the rest were hungry, frightened, tick-infested strays that appeared in our yard. Two were pregnant.

You wrote about animals, usually dogs returned to shelters. My sister adopted a cat who had been returned to her local shelter three times because she was too wild. My sister was appalled and immediately filled out adoption papers. Cocoa found her forever home with my sister and her five other adopted felines.