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Pet adoption is taking responsibility over an animal that has been put forward for adoption due to experience of abuse, violence, neglect and many other reasons. with previous owners. With pet adoption, animals are given the chance to find an appropriate, caring and permanent home. Apart from this humane chance we’re giving to man’s best friend, there are also benefits from adopting animals.

The Humane Society of the United States estimates an whopping 8 to 10 million cats and dogs that enter shelters annually. From these numbers, there is estimated 4 to 5 million of pets euthanized in shelters. The number of strays that die due to starvation are not included in that figure.

With these deplorable figures, pet adoption is a great way to rescue a life of a dispossessed animal. Animal euthanasia is being carried out because there are too many people abandoning their pets and too few people adopting from shelters. There is limited space in shelters, and euthanasia is a very hard decision to make by staff members to make way for new animals pouring into their doors.

Animals in shelter dying by euthanasia can be dramatically reduced by adopting pets in shelters rather than buying them in pet stores. By adopting an animal from shelters, other animals can be saved and rescued elsewhere and provided with a home.

Animal shelters, unlike what pet adoption myths say, have mainly healthy animals. Shelters often get as much information from previous owners to determine what sort of vaccination has already been given. Apart from medical aid investigation, shelters also provide the necessary vaccination and many spay or neuter the animals before allowing them to be adopted.

Worrying about the temperament or behaviour of the animals is also not a big issue. Unlike the common misconception that animals are taken into shelters because of behaviour problems, personal reasons by the owner themselves are the more usual factors.

Everybody knows that having pets have genuine benefits. According to Sciencedaily.com, there is a lot of research which proves the pet parents have lower blood pressure, less anxiety, and experience lifts in their depression. One study actually proved that with a little than 10 minutes, a pet can lower blood pressure in it’s owner significantly.

Pet owners even have overall better physical health due to exercise with their pets. Actually senior, citizens who own pets actually need less medical attention. Not only do sick and elderly people benefit from pets. Children exposed to pets during their first year of life have a lower frequency of asthma and allergies.

Pet owners who have undergone surgery even have lower recovery time. There is even a study saying that heart attack patients who own pets have longer life expectancy than those who do not. There is even a study saying that pets decrease heart attack mortality rates by about 3 percent which is roughly 30,0000 lives annually. HIV/AIDS victims who have pets also report less depression and reduced stress levels.

There is much research proving that taking an animal into our homes is a great way to enhance our personal and family health. The love and care that pet parents provide to their pets is indeed reciprocated. Apart from humane and health benefits that pet adoption can give, it is also a great way of saving money.

For a price which is a great deal less than most pet store pets, you will get an animal that will be able to provide you with loyalty and devotion.

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1/  The Greyhound is one of the oldest  of all dog breeds, and his type has altered remarkably little during the seven thousand years
during  which they are known to have been cherished for speed, and kept by men for running down the gazelle or coursing the hare.

 2/ The earliest references to  the greyhound are far back in the primitive ages, long before he was depicted by Assyrian artists, straining at the leash or racing after his prey across the desert sands.

 3/ Egyptians loved him and appreciated him centuries before the pyramids were built.

 4/ King Solomon referred to him (Proverbs xxx. 31) as being among the four things which “go well and are comely in going:–

 (i) A lion, which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away from any;
(ii) A Greyhound;
(iii) A he goat
(iv) A king against whom there is no rising up.”

 5/ Greeks, whose artists were fond of introducing this graceful animal as an ornament in their decorative workmanship. In their metal work, their carvings in ivory and stone, and more particularly as parts in the designs on their terra-cotta oil bottles, wine coolers, and other vases, the Greyhound is frequently to be seen, sometimes following the hare, and always in remarkably characteristic attitudes. Usually these Greek Greyhounds are represented with prick ears, but occasionally the true rose ear is shown.

6/  It was not until the reign of Queen Elizabeth that coursing in England was conducted under established rules. These were drawn up by the then Duke of Norfolk. The sport quickly grew in favour, and continued to increase in popularity until the first coursing club was established at Swaffham in 1776. Then in 1780 the Ashdown Park Meeting came into existence. The Newmarket Meeting in 1805 was the next fixture that was inaugurated, and this now remains with the champion stakes as its most important event. Afterwards came the Amesbury Meeting in 1822, but Amesbury, like Ashdown, although for many years one of the most celebrated institutions of the description, has fallen from its high estate. Three years later came the Altcar Club. But it was not until eleven years after this period that the Waterloo Cup was instituted (in 1836), to win which is the highest ambition of followers of the leash.

7/ The National Coursing Club was established in 1858, when a stud book was commenced, and a code of laws drawn up for the regulation of coursing meetings. This is recognised in Australia and other parts of the world where coursing meetings are held. The Stud Book, of which Mr. W. F. Lamonby is the keeper, contains particulars of all the best-known Greyhounds in the United Kingdom, and a dog is not allowed to compete at any of the large meetings held under Coursing Club rules unless it has been duly entered with its pedigree complete. In fact, the National Coursing Club is more particular in connection with the pedigrees of Greyhounds being correctly given, than the Kennel Club is about dogs that are exhibited; and that is saying a great deal. It holds the same position in coursing matters as the Jockey Club does in racing. It is in fact, the supreme authority on all matters connected with coursing.

8/ Various opinions have been advanced as to the best size and weight for a Greyhound. Like horses, Greyhounds run in all forms, and there is no doubt that a really good big one will always have an advantage over the little ones; but it is so difficult to find the former, and most of the chief winners of the Waterloo Cup have been comparatively small. Coomassie was the smallest Greyhound that ever won the blue ribbon of the leash; she drew the scale at 42 lbs., and was credited with the win of the Cup on two occasions. Bab at the Bowster, who is considered by many good judges to have been the best bitch that ever ran, was 2 lbs. more; she won the Cup once, and many other stakes, as she was run all over the country and was not kept for the big event. Master McGrath was a small dog, and only weighed 53 lbs., but he won the Waterloo Cup three times. Fullerton, who was a much bigger dog, and was four times declared the winner of the Cup, was 56 lbs. in weight.

9/ There are very few Greyhounds that have won the Waterloo Cup more than once, but Cerito was credited with it three times, namely, in 1850, 1852, and 1853, when it was a thirty-two dog stake.

10/  It appears like descending from the sublime to the laughable to mention the Greyhound as a show dog, after the many magnificent performances that have been recorded of him in the leash, but there are many dogs elegant in outline with fine muscular development that are to be seen in the judging ring. Mr. George Raper’s Roasting Hot is one of the most spectacular winners of the day; he is a fawn and white, as handsome as a peacock and, moreover, is a good dog in the field. On one occasion after competing successfully at the Kennel Club Show at the Crystal Palace, he was taken to a coursing meeting where he won the stake in which he was entered.

Although, as a rule, the most consistent winners in the leash have not been noted for their good looks, there have been exceptions in which the opposite has been the case. Fullerton was a good-looking dog, if not quite up to the form required in the show ring. Mr. Harding Cox has had several specimens that could run well and win prizes as show dogs, and the same may be said of Miss Maud May’s fine kennel of Greyhounds in the North of England. In the South of England Mrs. A. Dewe keeps a number of longtails that when not winning prizes at the Crystal Palace and elsewhere are running at Plumpton and other meetings in Sussex.