Bloggin’ with Mr. Biscuit

I’m just a dog, so of course I don’t have all the answers, but I live with two shelter cats and they are wonderful!  So it got me to thinking, why isn’t everyone getting their pets from the shelters?  I would be so sad to know that my two kitty friends were killed at the shelter because no one wanted them.  I know that if I was at the shelter I wouldn’t have made it out alive because Pit Bulls are the first to die.  That brings me to something else I don’t understand.  People are still paying lots and lots of money to get Pit Bulls from breeders, while thousands of pure-bred Pit Bulls and other pure-bred doggie friends are waiting at shelters all over the country.  Now, my two housemates aren’t pure-bred cats, but to me they are just as good as any other cat, and we have fostered all kinds of cats, including pure-bred cats and kittens.  My mom says that only 15-20% of all household dogs and cats are adopted from shelters and that 3-4 million die in shelters every year, and that 25% of all animals in shelters are pure-bred.  I’m not the brightest dog around, but this just doesn’t add up.  I’m hoping you can help me understand why more people are not adopting from animal shelters.