PAWS

Why Adopt?

EVERYTIME YOU BUY A PET FROM PET SHOPS OR BREEDERS, YOU DEPRIVE AN ANIMAL IN THE SHELTER OR POUND A GOOD HOME.

At present there are no statistics on the population of stray cats and dogs in the Philippines, or even for the Metropolitan Manila area. But, consider this:

Assume King and Misha is your average pair of healthy breeding dogs. Once a year, they breed with an average of 4 puppies that are neither spayed nor neutered. If half of the offspring are female, in seven years, you can expect your neighborhood to be teeming with 4,372 dogs!

First year                          4 dogs
Second year                     12
Third year                         36
Fifth year                          324
Seventh year                     4,372

Corky and Summer, on the other hand, are two uncontrolled breeding cats that have three litters per year. They have an average of 4 kittens per litter, none of them spayed or neutered. Given a ten-year breeding life and half of their offspring female, the number of cats from just one pair of breeding cats could equal the Filipino population in only a decade!

First Year                         12 cats
Second Year                     66
Third Year                         382
Fourth Year                       2201
Fifth Year                         12,680
Sixth Year                        73,041
Seventh Year                    420,715
Eight Year                        2,423,316
Ninth Year                        13,958,290
Tenth Year              80,399,780

What happens to more than half of them? Abandoned and rejected, or sometimes left for dead.

Provide a home.

Adopt from the PAWS shelter.

Spay and neuter your pets.

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ADOPTION

Adopt a homeless animal and reward yourself with a new best friend