First off, Happy New Year! Here's hoping that 2014 is everything you want it to be. There's a timely issue making the rounds that I thought would result in an interesting discussion: giving pets as gifts. I'm sure you've all heard the warnings to "never give a pet as a gift." Yet, recently that advice has been questioned by several different sources. Emily Weiss of the ASPCA did a study which found that people who received pets as gifts were as attached to them as pets acquired otherwise. In addition, the same percentage of gifted pets stayed in the home as those from routine adoptions. You can read more about this in an ASPCA Guest Blog by ASPCA President & CEO Matt Bershadker. The well-known sanctuary Best Friends made the same point this December, see their blog Read More
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