Earth to everybody: Adoption saves lives. That’s why Battlestar Galactica icons Captain Starbuck and Quantity Six—Katee Sackhoff (The Mandalorian) and Tricia Helfer (Lucifer)—joined forces with PETA in a video to remind human earthlings to undertake companion animals, never buy them.
The galactic heroes may butt heads typically, however they’ll all the time agree on one factor: You must be on board with adoption to be part of their fleet.
The thirteenth Colony (aka “Earth”) is filled with adoptable companion animals.
“Even if you’re searching for a selected breed, you may nonetheless undertake,” Sackhoff and her adopted pug, Nelly Bean, level out within the new PETA video.
It’s estimated that no less than 25% of canine in animal shelters are literally “purebred.” So even if you need a “purebred” canine—or cat—take a look at your native shelter. With hundreds of thousands of adoptable “purebreds” and mixed-breed canine and cats alike, there’s no motive to assist breeders, puppy mills, or pet stores, which rob animals in shelters of an opportunity at discovering a house.
Helfer tells viewers that the companion animal adoption database Petfinder.com is “like on-line courting however for adoptable animals.”
Take it from these space-dwelling characters: There are many reasons to adopt.
Each adoption means an animal will not be ready for a loving residence at a shelter. Adoption charges additionally assist the vital day by day work that shelters do to assist animals, together with offering vaccines, veterinary care, spaying and neutering, and euthanasia, that are all essential to ending companion animal overpopulation and assuaging struggling.
How are you going to be a part of these Battlestar Galactica heroes‘ pro-adoption fleet? Please undertake and by no means store and assist PETA stem the circulation of homeless, uncared for, and abused cats and canine who’re headed to overburdened animal shelters or deserted to undergo and die on the road due to the overpopulation disaster. Click on under to assist our Spay and Neuter Instantly, Please! (SNIP) program:
