Shelter animals ain't free, you know.

Children are not the same as dogs. People who put humans and animals on the same level are disgusting psychopaths. Please don't ever have kids, its horrifying to think of what would happen when a person puts an animal before a baby.

Ok, saying that orphans should go to jail is low - not all pounds are horrible. I work at my local animal shelter, and it's nothing like a jail cell. And dogs and cats get adopted FAST here. So they're not all bad. I also doubt an orphange is any fun place to be. #51, while it may be true that dogs and children are not the same, if you don't give the same amount of love to each, and treat it the best possible way, then you really shouldn't have one or both of them.

F you. The only people who should have children are those that respect animals as living creatures with feelings. My cats are my family. The pyschopaths are those who think animals deserve to be tossed out like day old garbage when they become 'inconvient'

There's a difference between RESPECTING animals and saying their lives are the same as humans. Sorry but if you have to choose between getting medicine for a sick child, and medicine for a sick animal, you should ALWAYS choose the child. Its like when PETA said that chickens killed for meat were the same as Holocaust victims killed by the Nazi's. Um, no they aren't.

I can understand what you're saying from a human's point of view, you know, because humans are at the top of the food chain blah blah blah... but in biology's POV (not the class, asshole) we are all the same. The only thing that makes us stronger is our ability to think, and make tools. Honestly, the tools that keep us on top of the food chain are weapons. Without them, we'd be animal's meals. Think about it. The other only animals capable of building tools like us (gorillas, etc..) are locked in cages.

There shouldn't be a choice to be made. By adopting or buying an animal, you are taking responsibility for it for the duration of its life. If you aren't willing or aren't able to, than you never should have adopted it in the first place.

Nope, I'm with Malinkrot here. Of course you shouldn't buy a pet if you can't afford to look after it, but people's circumstances change. If you had a dog and a child and one of them got drastically sick, so that you couldn't afford the upkeep of the other, which would you give away? The dog, of course. Children are much more important than animals. Yes it might be 'just' our intelligence and ability to make weapons that puts us at the top of the food chain, but who said the food chain is the most important gauge in the world? Anybody who compares an animal to another human, child or not, needs their head read. This doesn't mean it's ok to treat animals badly. It just means that when something's gotta give, it should be the animal.

To you people are much more important than animals but to me, you've made a commitment and you find a way to make it work. If you aren't prepared to do that, than you should never have adopted the dog or had the kid. I volunteer in rescue and have heard every disgusting excuse on the books for people getting rid of their companion animals. Above and beyond that, who are you to judge how I spend my money?

...okay then, why are children more important than animals?

And I'm sure foster kids wouldn't appreciate being compared to dogs.

If we think about it, people can have different beliefs, can't we? I grew up to see all creatures God's creations, humans and dogs alike. You may support human dominancy. I have no problem accepting your beliefs. Why can't you all accept mine? But when this crazy woman decides to take an animal back to a pound, many of which are horrible places, that angers me. I just hope for the dog's sake it's in a good place.

You took the words out of my fingers.

Who's to say that the puppy is not already fixed?