Poochie Freak Pet Photography ~ Where love shines through

A TV programme has just started called The £60,000 Puppy: Cloning Man’s Best Friend. I’m not sure I’m going to be able to watch all of it. I suspect it will make me sad and cross in pretty equal measures.

Every dog is an individual being, just as we humans are. We each have a soul. We are all unique. I have welcomed dogs of varying breeds/mixes and ages into my heart and home over the years. All rescues of some sort and all wonderful creatures to be loved for who they are. I don’t feel that I have missed out because none of my dogs has been related to another in some way. I feel blessed that I am/have been able to share my life with each of them.

If I was fortunate enough to find myself with £60,000 to spend on something wonderful, I’d use it to make our lives even better and do something for rescue too.

There are thousands of healthy dogs killed each year in the UK, millions in the US, who very much deserved the chance of finding a loving forever home, but were denied this opportunity. I find it so sad that so much money can be spent on ‘creating’ one dog, when such a sum could be an amazing help to a dog rescue, for example. What rescue/sanctuary wouldn’t welcome such a huge amount of money to help them continue their work?

Why clone when you can adopt? Find your new best friend in rescue and free up a rescue space for another dog, one who might have otherwise been included in the above statistics. There are so many beautiful dogs in need of loving homes. Adopt. Don’t clone.