ADOPT, DON’T BUY

“All three of our shih-tzus were adopted, and our youngest Cookie was adopted through Voices For Animals. At nine months old, she was the size of a three-month-old puppy, severely underweight and undernourished. We initially wanted to foster her to good health and then rehome her, but who’d have thought that within weeks we’d made up our minds to keep her for good. Dogs that have been adopted from shelters seem a lot more grateful, and the unconditional love and joy they give to us humans have no limits.” —Andrea De Cruz, with Marybeth