🐶🐶🐶Mayday for Mutts🐶🐶🐶
What a great idea today is to show what wonderful dogs real Mutts are. How much better pets they make than a pedigree, and how much healthier they are, and a better temperament, and how much more love they give. Call they what you like, Heinz 57, mongrel, cross breeds or scruffs, they make wonderful pets.
By highlighting these brilliant dogs, it is promoting a shift to adoption rather than paying stupid money to a breeder for a dog with a bit of paper and maybe a lot of problems as well!
I have always had a Mutt and have never regretted it. I have never had problems either, but they come with baggage, so you need patience and understanding as well. There is too much snobbery about dogs. Even crossbreeds now have names like Cockapoo, for example. It's a lovely dog, but I'm sorry it's not a pedigree and not worth the hundreds of pounds/dollars breeders charge for it.
Today started to show that a dog's worth is its personality, not its bit of paper. It is always celebrated on the first Sunday in May. It not only highlights the advantages of a Mutt but also the ones in shelters that get overlooked, like the disabled dog, it doesn't know it can't hear or can't see and can live a very happy life indeed, with a bit of understanding on the owners part, and the older dogs, they really should spend their last days in a loving comfy home, not in a kennel.
To celebrate today, you could offer to walk a Mutt in the local shelter, or even adopt one, and you will never ever regret it. You could donate to a shelter, come on we can all afford a few quid, the price of a coffee out. Or you could go to a shelter and volunteer to help out and get to know the animals. There are thousands of them in shelters around the country, through no fault of their own.
So today, let's post all things Mutt related and have some fun with these wonderful creatures.
Whatever you do today to celebrate it, give a thought to those poor dogs that don't have a loving forever home, and maybe next time you’re shopping, drop a tin of food into the charity box in the supermarket. Believe me, it will be gratefully received
