If you are thinking about getting a pet, why not adopt one? There's a list of reasons why you should try it out.
Firstly, this will offer you a great pet and a new best friend. Shelter animals are waiting for someone to take them home, someone to give their unconditional love to. They miss care and attention. These grateful creatures will fill your family with joy and happiness. Although some of the animals are street stray, there are also many of those who have already had a home and been house-trained. With these mature pets, you won't have to worry about toilet accidents or basic training issues.
Secondly, it will cost you less to nothing. There are many shelters which are ready to give a pet of any size, colour and breed into good hands for free. By contrast, it's rather expensive to buy any animal in a shop and the pedigreed animals are quite high-priced. The shelter pets are already checked for diseases and vaccinated.
Thirdly, adoption saves lives. Shelters are overcrowded with animals. In many countries, stray animals are euthanized unless they get an owner. Adopting one, you let the shelter have room for another one.
Taking care of a pet, grooming, playing and walking provides you with both emotional and physical health benefits! And being proud of choice you've done makes things even better.

1)Shelter animals are eager to get a loving home.
2)Shelter animals have had a hard life. They deserve one more chance.
3)Most shelter animals know how to behave in a family.
4)It's cheaper to get a pet in a shelter.
5)Shelters provide the owners with free vaccination, treatment and grooming.
6)You are free to give the pet back to the shelter if you have problems with it.
7)You save more animals by providing them with a place in a shelter.
8)You experience the joy of making a good thing.

a)pedigreed
b)basic training
c)shelter
d)grooming
e)stray

1)having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal
2)having no home or having wandered away from home
3)a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger
4)set of tricks and skills a pet is taught
5)things that people do to keep their pets clean and make their hair look neat and nice