You can wager how excited people get when they adopt and rescue a puppy or a kitten or any other floof of floofiness, but it seems to go double—nae, triple—for the floofs themselves. And when it hits the internet, the joy spreads. Speaking of which, guess what’s hiding just a few scrolls away? Yep, the joy we just talked about. We won’t dive into why shopping for pets is less than ideal but rather will focus on the 920,000+ reasons why there ought to be more adoption. And it’s statistically more likely that this number included a bigger proportion of cats than it did dogs. The good news is that there are about 4.1 million animals that end up adopted from shelters each year, with more stray dogs than cats returning to their actual owners per year. So, the ball is definitely rolling. It’s not to say that things aren’t happening. The leap from 2010 to 2022 of the number of households that owned pets was 14 million—73 to 87 million. But more has to be done. This in turn means that 42% of counties in the U.S. are officially no-kill zones for pets, and 93% of all no-kill shelters have managed to sustain their goals of not euthanizing animals in 2021. Follow Bored Panda on Google News! Follow us on Flipboard.com/@boredpanda! Please use high-res photos without watermarks Ooops! Your image is too large, maximum file size is 8 MB.
