#RESCUE DOGS FROM SHELTERS

[nyenylon]

Adopt a dog spirit today, it'll make them very happy

(This is my Sona from when I was 11 and Alpine, she's still here many years later, here are some recent works of her, some featuring me)

[violetc4ts]

protect this boy at all costs

[electoons]

I need to keep reminding myself that I did so much to keep her comfortable and alive for long enough for my family to return and also that nothing I could have done would have kept her alive so I can't keep dwelling on it like I didn't do enough. I did so much. I carried her everywhere. I helped her use the bathroom. I constantly was wiping the brown crusty drool off her paws and the crud that kept building in her eyes to give her some feeling of cleanliness and comfort. I stuck an IV in her (that I got from the vet, not just, like, on my own) once a day to keep her hydrated. like even though I was scrambling to finish an animation and get work done I put aside so much time and effort and love for her. I watched her like a hawk for the whole week, dealing with this on my own (it's no one's fault, just really bad timing, everything just happened to line up perfectly for the perfect shitstorm), just to make sure she didn't collapse and hurt herself. I did enough :( it wasn't enough but nothing would have been

[tethered-heartstrings]

pet challange (hard mode), take a guess!

breed: very cute

[namira]

The mass spay and neutering of pets is definitely a good thing overall but I do sometimes wonder about the potential impact of the decline of randombred dogs. Most US animal shelters are overwhelmingly populated by pit bull breeds and mixes, with a handful of other challenging breeds (ie German Shepherds, huskies) and a couple chihuahua-things here and there. Like outside of shelters in poorer rural areas there just aren't a lot of full on mutts, those classic Heinz 57 collie-lab-beagle-pointer type dogs. And again, this is overall a good thing because it means less unwanted dogs ending up in shelters and being euthanized due to lack of space despite being perfectly good dogs, but I do wonder. Like I wonder about the potential long-term impact in the dog population as a whole (less genetic diversity, etc) and I wonder about the human impact. Breeders are expensive, and those Heinz 57 mutts and non-pit purebreds that do end up in shelters are often scooped up by private rescue orgs that ostensibly reject anyone who isn't affluent. (ie heavily prioritizing adopters who work from home, requiring a fenced in yard even for small dogs that would do fine in an apartment, etc) So for a lot of Americans the only dogs realistically available to them are from breeds that are very much not for everyone (pits having a high prey drive and being predisposed to dog aggression, huskies having a high prey drive and generally being very high strung, etc) and that are, in many cases, flat out not allowed in rented properties and trailer parks. I really have no idea how it will play out in the long run or how to feel about it or any insightful conclusion here, but it does make me hmmm

[observeroftheuniverse]

Happy birthday to me and @agent-starbuck's son! He is 4 today!

[madigoround]

My birthday is on Sunday but my aunt can only hang out tomorrow so we’re going to the zoo because I haven’t been before and I’m so excited among all the cool animals they have a cheetah and a dog that are best friends I’m obsessed 😍🥰

[whippetcrimes]

When Misty came to work with me last weekend, a man came in to collect the money for a local dog rescue. And he asked me if she was a rescue then continued the conversation into older people should adopt old rescue dogs because if they get a young dog from a breeder, the dog will have nowhere to go if they pass before the dog and the family can't take the dog/doesn't want it... And I was just like. If I weren't on the clock right now, I'd at the very least have said that any good breeder would take the dog back... He even directly asked me, "what would happen to your beautiful designer dog if something happened to you and your partner?" I had to bite my tongue so hard.

[fertbutt]

I wish for all people who intentionally buy and breed wolfdogs to be torn to shreds eternally by a pack of wolves when they die and go to hell

[brighteyedspitz]

baby has a bear

[sybbi]

Someone in my neighborhood posting about how they "just rescued a dog but actually they can't afford to buy it diapers all the time does anyone want her :((" and I'm seeing red

[lesbiten]

sometimes people who are super into ethical dog breeding get kinda weird about it and its like ohhh......you have bad opinions about other things as well

[dirt-mann]

I wish there were more wirehaired dogs outside of terriers and working pointers (and extremely rare dogs that dont exist in my area). every gundog breed should have a wirehaired variant

[kipxan]

“oh yeah that friendly 6-8 week old kitten with no collar or chip you took in? the invasive species that will grow up to decimate the native wildlife if it even grows up at all? yeah sorry, throw it back out into the desert, we don’t take strays” (i genuinely wish i was exaggerating here)

YOU’RE THE FUCKING CITY ANIMAL SHELTER! IF YOU DONT TAKE STRAYS THEN WHAT THE HELL DO YOU DO??

[cryptidsdad]

throwback to when I said robert would do well with a greyhound <3 the point still stands

[tuttamialittlemsblog]

Excellent information on adopting a rescue dog. Patience is required with any puppy. Training is ongoing till your sweet doggo can handle essential commands. Then move to fun—-shake paw——roll over—-kiss—-spin….& many more.🐕❤️🐕‍🦺❤️

Reblog

This comic made it to my Patreon first, but I'm posting it here, finally. It's been two weeks now, and she's settling in well!

Aaand of course, we have dog photo tax:

Between the time this comic was drawn and posted, her ears have popped up!