Considering bringing home a new pet?

Are you really prepared for the responsibility and care that a new animal requires?

What should you expect when bringing the pet home?

Let’s find out!

 

Bringing home a new pet can be an exciting time. Having a new animal in the house means you’ll have someone who will love you unconditionally. You’ll have someone to come home too. Someone to cuddle, someone who will listen. It also brings along many responsibilities.

When committing to a new pet, it truly is a commitment. Every pet requires an adjustment period. They require training, they will have accidents (especially puppies and kittens). They will test your patience. They will require constant attention. You will have to watch them like a hawk.

Getting an animal also requires a good amount of money. You’ll have to purchase: toys, food, on going veterinary care, and much more! These expenses will continue through out the animal’s life. So the question still remains: Are you prepared to bring a new animal into your home?

With shelters, rescues, and other animal care facilities over crowded with animals who were adopted during covid, make sure this is truly what you want. And make sure you’re prepared to welcome the animal into your home and into your heart.

Puppies require to be let out about every 2 hours. They will also go through a teething phase, which will make them chew, bite, and turn them into miniature alligators. Be sure, if welcoming one that you have a plan to allow them to relieve themselves. Also make sure you are ready with teething toys, items to massage your puppies’ gums. Puppies WILL have accidents. It will take weeks for them to properly learn to ask and go to outside to relieve themselves.

Kittens require just as much attention and care. Although they use a litter box, they will have accidents. They will also go through a teething phase, they will also wants to scratch everything as their claws begin to grow. Even cute pet such as rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters have their own complexities. They require that their cage be cleaned often, rabbits change the type of hay they consume based on age. And various other changes as they grow.

If you’re kids are looking to bring home a pet, maybe start with a simpler animal such as a fish. They require little care and responsibility (compared to a puppy or kitten).

If looking to bring home a more exotic pet(such as: snake, lizard, ect), please do your research regarding the cost of feeding and homing materials. Many of these animals need live pray. They also need their cages cleaned often, they also require heat lamps.

Bringing home a pet is a wonderful and heartfelt experience. To a person or family that is prepared. I highly recommend researching every aspect of the animal you wish to bring home. If you’re prepared, and well educated bringing home a pet will be a very pleasant and rewarding experience. Remember that NO ANIMAL wants to be abandoned or surrendered to a rescue, shelter a couple weeks after they’ve been welcomed into your home. So long as you know and understand that a pet will be a 5+ year commitment, you will be able to enjoy your pet parent experience.