Pedigree vs Moggy; Shop vs Adopt

I became a parent of her, a fluffy cutie I adopted one week ago. At the time I adopted her, she's just passed her second months birthday. But as I know, she has been changing several owners. I can feel that she's insecured even though she's just a kitten. Maybe this is relative with her previous experience.

Pets being abandoned and resold for many reasons. I am not blaming them in this blog. Some of them are irresponsible but I know not every pet owner is like that. We can not avoid the significant life changes sometimes, they may have their grievances to give up their pets. At least some of them can ask around for the next responsible adoption family instead of abandoning them in the street.

When you choose a pet, would you be more inclined to pet a pedigree cat/dog instead of a mixed/domestic breed? I believe that animal lovers will set the affection of a pet regardless of their breeds. Yes, pedigree cat has more stable traits even they also has high prevalence rate of genetic disease. Not all pet owners are suitable to pet a moggy depending on your schedule and family structure. But if you search around all the cat rescue websites. You can find that most of those abandoned cats are domestic cat, who are already overpopulated and need more adoption families to take care of them.

Some people consider their pets as property. An expensive pedigree pet can be used as a show-off. That makes business opportunities for some profiteers to make money out of these innocent lives. At this point, I will recommend a BBC documentary Pedigree Dogs Exposed. You will understand how cruel we human beings treat these pedigree animals. Such as Scottish Fold cat, big proportion of them have congenital defects. Just because their folded ears look "cute" and lots of people want to buy them, some breeders keep breeding them and let them suffer from inborn illnesses from generation to generation.

Every life should be respected, human or animal.