Burton MacKenzie

A few years ago when passing through Florida, I found this sign:

It was at night, everything was closed, and I only had enough time to snap this picture, but it has haunted me ever since; what the hell are discount pets?! It may just be regional semantic variation, but when something is discounted where I come from, it's usually damaged in some way or factory seconds, etc. All I can envision are cats with the mange, deranged budgies, or three-legged rabid dogs. Why are they discounted? Are they refurbished customer returns? Perhaps a ferret that won't stop urinating the couch and now it's available to you at a low-low price? Then again, maybe it's a no-kill animal shelter. That would be really great if it was. But it's not.

If you'd like to convert a click of your mouse into food for real rescued animals, look between the google ads on the right of the page. There is a colourful button for The Animal Rescue Site in the Altruism section. Click through to their site. 100% of their ad click-through revenues goes to feeding rescued animals. Take 5 seconds of your day to help an animal. Then help people with the other buttons in the Altruism section. Thanks. :-)

Update: Just to be clear, I make no money from the Altruism links - it all goes to the named charities.

Burton MacKenZie www.burtonmackenzie.com