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Silverti — Adopt, don't shop
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Published: 2016-10-26 11:21:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 432; Favourites: 30; Downloads: 0
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Big painting I started maybe a year ago..I love animal shelters, after volunteering at one for a couple of years. It's the best thing to see an animal get a second chance at happiness!
All of these pets were adopted by my relatives from my local RSPCA.
Billy, Ivy, Blue, Lucy, Moose & Joey
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Aww~ Cutie pies! ! I love this art! and I have four rescued dogs from the AAC! (I also took a abused dog from his house.. IT IS NOT STEALING IF HE IS HITTING THE DOG WITH A WHIP!!)
Anyway - It is an amazing job ^^
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Not only your painting style is amazing - I love how you drew Ivy and Blue especially - I also agree with your point so hard! As long as pets are put down because nobody takes them home, I will adopt animals from shelters, instead of buying "newly" bred pups or kittens from breeders. In my country there aren't many shelter pets (fortunately) and the amount of strays is null, but there are multiple responsible international stray and rescue organisations that rehome dogs and cats from countries such as Spain, who had been given no chance in their homeland. My family's dog is coming from an organisation like this, and we've never regretted our choice to do so.
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Thanks so much! That's great that you're adopting (:
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This depends of the country very much and also what you're looking for from your dog. I think that where ever you lived, if you want to compete with your dog and/or breed the dog to improve the breed, shelter dog is probably not the no 1 option in that case. That is because it can have traumas and behavior problems that prevent it from becoming good for hobbies.
Some countries do have just few dogs in shelters and they're pretty much all going to new homes (except super aggressive and super timid dogs). There are no stray population at all. For example Nordic countries are like this. Here people are encouraging to get a dog from reasonable kennelclub approved breeder and go having hobbies with their dogs. Agility, dog shows, obedience etc. Even people breeding common mixed breed dogs are starting to make health examinations and testing the parent dogs bones in x-ray pictures before breeding.
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I haven't been to a Nordic country so I don't know what it's like over there, but in my area I've seen many homeless dogs and irresponsible owners that deserve their dogs to be taken and given the chance for rehoming.
The shelter I volunteered at had a qualified dog behaviourist inspect all dogs before they became available for adoption, to assess what they can and can't do. If you're into showing and breeding that's no problem, this is just my opinion (:
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Looks great! I like the shading and how you did their fur 
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