To the people with pet(s), did you buy or adopt?

[DaWhim]

Originally posted by: minendo
Got Stella from GABR

I want sheltier...

 

[jdub1107]

Adopted my dog.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

"To take up and make one's own: adopt a new idea"
"To take on or assume: adopted an air of importance"
"to take or accept as if one's own <[the company] adopted the signature on the financing statement ?Barber-Greene Company v. Nat'l City Bank of Minneapolis, 816 Federal Reporter, Second Series 1267 (1987)>"
"take into one's family through legal means and raise as one's own child. "

Nice, but you conveniently left out the rest of every single quote you posted above. Here I'll fix it for you.

I'll even add below all the quotes pertaining to family from your own link:


- To take into one's family through legal means and raise as one's own child.

- Usage Note: Children are adopted by parents, and one normally refers to an adopted child but to adoptive parents, families, and homes. When describing places, one can use either adopted or adoptive: She enjoys living in her adopted country. Detroit is their adoptive city.

- 1 : to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) as one's own child esp. in compliance with formal legal procedures
- 5: take into one's family; "They adopted two children from Nicaragua"

None of those changes the actual meaning of the word, those are just the examples they chose to provide.
The real point is that you not liking that word being used in that context doesn't make it any less acceptable or correct.

No, it doesn't. It's just my own little rant I guess...

 

[Kelvrick]

Is there a "puppy" season like how they have a "kitty" season?

 

[thirdlegstump]

I buy dogs from breeders simply because adopted ones can have health issues that'll cost you more in the long run. I have a golden retriever and a jack russell.

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: DaWhim

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Adopt? I hate that word when used in this context. My wife was adopted by her Mom and her Dad. My dog on the other hand was rescued. We did not adopt our dog.

that's just PC. do you think we shouldn't use the "master" and "slave" to describe the hdd?

Hell no. I could care less about that.

I just think it is a stupid word to use for a pet. As though you have anywhere near the responsibility or obligation to a pet as you do a human. I like rescued...that is what we say when we refer to how we acquired our dog.

PC has nothing to do with it. Semantics does.

That's moronic.

 

[Looney]

As for me, 1 dog purchased, 1 cat adopted, and 1 dog adopted.

 

[torpid]

I don't think that rescue shelter pets are any more or less messed up. That's just a stereotype that people use to make themselves feel better or superior for purchasing from an inhumane pet store. If you talk to people at rescue shelters you will hear some amazing stories of uncaring jerk owners. People will give up pets for almost any reason.

My calico, along with her now deceased brother, were given to the shelter because a couple had divorced. I also looked at a cat that had been given up because the owner moved. Not moved to some 3rd world nation, just moved elsewhere within the city.

We're not sure what the story of my other cat is. He was found emaciated and starving to death in the wild, with an eye so swelled up that they initially thought it was gone. My friend adopted him and he eventually came into my care.

They are both extremely friendly, playful, and have caused no problems other than the normal "humpty dumpty will fall by my paw" counter invasions. They don't get along like best friends, but they have been curious about each other since the day they met.

 

[jadinolf]

I rescued Fred from Basset Rescue.

I will tell you now that it was love at first sight on behalf of both of us.

 

[ohtwell]

We adopted our kitty.


: ) Amanda

 

[Trey22]

Rescued our first cockatiel, Maximus, from Petco (bastards!) and adopted our second, Oliver, from Mickaboo.

I was always a dog person, and never gave birds a second thought, but it's amazing how attached you get to these guys.

 

[TitanDiddly]

Cat 1: Showed up outside, it was cold, we took indoors. Never left.
Cat 2: Gift from our breeder aunt. Siamese, bluepoint.

 

[Amused]

My Kitty was a neighborhood stray that had been fixed and declawed by whoever lost him. A person in the neighborhood was letting him live in their garage when he adopted us.

My Buddy:

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/Amused/Buddy.jpg