Do people know there is a difference between “rescuing” and animal and “adopting” an animal ?

When a shelter has to euthanize animals it’s not wrong. So if you adopt from them you didn’t rescue them you adopted them. Now many shelters have to euthanize animals they actually rescued. From slower and inhumane deaths or lives. To just say adopting a pet from a shelter and it not having been euthanized is rescuing it Ian to one put down the good work shelters do, and two really unhealthy grandeur. MO. I think I’m right I could be wrong.

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bijouxbroussard · F

I’m not sure I understand why it can’t be both. I adopted my cat many years ago from a shelter that euthanized animals after a certain point if they weren’t chosen. So basically it would’ve been a question of her dying at age 3 rather than age 16. I think of just adoption as someone who buys a kitten from a breeder. Bringing one home from a shelter (especially a place without a “no-kill” policy) is adoption, too. But it’s also saving a life, which to me is rewarding.