Is It Worth Taking a Kitten From a Shelter: Pros & Cons?

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People are used to buying everything. Including animals. They are bought at pet stores, bought from breeders, and sometimes even ordered online with free home delivery. In such conditions of purely consumer relations, shelters go unnoticed: few people really think about them, and practically no one dares to take animals from there. Why?
Shelters take animals off the street.
Shelters save homeless and stray animals, and, unfortunately, no one needs them now. At the same time, most future owners do not even consider the shelter as an acceptable option, but act according to a long-established scheme and apply directly to the breeder. It's faster, it's easier, it's more reliable - three arguments "for" adherents of such a procedure. Some of which, by the way, subsequently throw the annoying animal into the street.
The activity of any such shelter is aimed at the treatment and maintenance of homeless animals. Here they are taken care of and determined "in good hands."
Why adopt an animal from a shelter?
It is worth mentioning that shelters are both public and private. The first - state shelters - do not keep pets for life. Animal euthanasia due to lack of space and lack of volunteers is a commonplace practice here. Private shelters are formed for the most part precisely because of the rejection of such an attitude, but at the same time they are financed entirely at the expense of the organizer's funds. Both public and private shelters are now overcrowded.
Volunteers and people who are ready to take an animal into their home are sorely lacking. And although a kitten from a shelter and a kitten from a cattery are not much different from each other, the demand for kittens is maximum at catteries. In the meantime, the next cat of a famous breeder produces more and more kittens for sale, exactly the same number of kittens are euthanized in the shelter.
Many mistakenly believe that shelter animals are sick and aggressive, that no one cares about them there. In fact, this is far from the case. It is because of the lack of awareness and unwillingness to waste their precious time that the majority refuses the idea of ​​acquiring a pet from a shelter. This is sad, and therefore, below is a list of all the real pros and cons that you need to rely on when making a final decision.
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[@dragon_fortnite1987]

Yes

[@dawnwillis9280]

I have a friend who took in a gorgeous shelter cat. It had had a bad life previously, and as a result, she is not a lap cat, nor does she have much interest in her toys. Obviously she has not had much attention in her early life. She knows me when I visit and if she wants something to eat will come and speak to me and smooch around me. I am travelling at the moment but will be finished with this soon and I am going to prepare to get a couple of female kittens who will be indoor cats, but I will also do pet therapy with them, so for me a kitten is preferable because I know I can mold and train them to be comfortable with their environment. It will take me until at least the end of next year to prepare for them. I grew up with cats and have not had the opportunity to own one in years now. I look at everything on cats on TH-cam.