Finding Your Perfect Pet with Petfinder.com

Petfinder.com is a great place to find all pets in your area that are in need of a home.  So, before you go to a pet store and buy a puppy, please do some research first.  These are my top 5 reasons for not buying a puppy from a pet store:

• It encourages the puppy mills, cruel places in which dogs are kept locked in cages, standing in their own fecal matter, often without medical care for their entire lives.  Despite what the store may say, the vast majority of pet store puppies come from puppy mills. 
• All that inattentive breeding leads to dogs with massive health problems due to a limited gene pool - what's cute now can be expensive and heartbreaking later.
• There are over 13,000 animals just in the vegas area that need a home.
• Adult dogs from the shelter are often already trained/housebroken.
• Adopting a dog that needs a home will give you the warm and fuzzies and add meaning to your life.

So that's it.  If you decide you want to adopt a pet, you can do all your research and find the little fuzzie on Petfinder.com and here is a short video to show you how:

What's your breed?

I mentioned before that I much prefer mix breed dogs over pure bred for a few ethical and practical reasons.  At the same time, I am fascinated by the idea that we evolved with dogs for thousands of years and in the last few hundred years we've consciously evolved dogs using selective breeding.  For better and for worse we have created new dog breeds that could help us with specialized tools and traits.

I've created a survey to find out the most interesting breeds to our class.  At the top of this spreadsheet you will see the numbers for America's favorite breeds, and in the second table, please increase the number next to your favorite breed(s).