Trendy Pets: Why Animals Should Not Be Impulse Purchases
It is estimated that 3.7 million shelter animals were euthanized in the United States in 2008. That number may be even higher, as animal care and control agencies are not uniformly required to maintain statistics. However, animal activists and welfare organizations such as the ASPCA alike agree that the estimate (based on previous studies from the National Council on Pet Population Study and Policy) is far too great, and impulsivity and ignorance on behalf of pet buyers may be to blame. Where the Trendy Syndrome Begins Over the years, animals portrayed in film and the media often became overnight sensations, from the lovable Dalmatians in the mid-90’s hit children’s movie to the cute Chihuahua in the Taco Bell commercials. Later, purse-sized pooches were all the craze, made popular by an infamous hotel heiress, and even snakes saw a spike in pet shop sales after a couple of pop princesses danced with pythons
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Trendy Pets: Why Animals Should Not Be Impulse Purchases
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