That's true. I could see that. But the idea to pay them in some case $150 and they INVITE themselves to inspect your home I will never agree too. I would pay the $150 or more for a pet I wanted.
I can even give them the name of my Vet to vouch that I do get my pets required shots and a lot more as well. Our two Rattys live like queens. Friends and family jokingly ask us too adopt them also.
Oh I agree, I was very much put off the one time I agreed to it. (for my wife’s sake, we had just put down a stray that we had adopted, it had a BB in it’s head, she lasted 1 year with us before succumbing to cancer.)
I stick with local volunteer animal rescue groups now. Get to know them and they will beg you to adopt, they will know just which cat or dog might just love you and they don’t charge though they do insist on sterilization and offer a certificate for a discount for that.
Yet I’m a sucker for an animal in need and may again prostrate myself before the zealots. their heart is in the right place after all.