• 15. November 2025.

• Adoption

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Adoption Isn’t Impulse Shopping

In today’s fast-paced world, we’ve grown used to instant solutions. If we don’t like something, we send it back within two weeks — the courier even picks it up from our door, and the refund lands in our account before we can blink. We scroll endlessly through social media, where miracles unfold in ninety-second clips. So much information floods our days that we rarely stop to think: the happy ending we’re seeing probably took weeks, months, or years to reach.

We don’t want to dwell on the effort behind those stories — the sweat, the tears, the patience. We crave the feel-good moments, the quick turnarounds, the tidy resolutions. But life doesn’t work like that. And perhaps it’s no surprise that this same mindset seeps into how some people approach adopting a dog.

We see it far too often: people adopt, take the dog home, set it down in the living room — or worse, out in the yard — and wait for the magic to happen, just like in the videos they’ve seen online. Then comes the shock: This dog pees indoors! Chews things! Barks! Growls! That wasn’t part of the story they imagined. No one told them it would take work, patience, and learning. Instead of asking for help, they convince themselves the dog is the problem — not their lack of preparation or effort.

And then they bring them back.

At Farmica, we’ve had dogs returned after weeks, even months, because someone changed their mind. Sometimes for absurd reasons: too noisy, too shy, too energetic, not cuddly enough. We won’t repeat the words some of those people used — but the truth is, they walked away from a living being as if they were returning a sweater that didn’t fit.

What those people don’t see or care about is what that does to the dog. A dog who’s been adopted and given a home then brought back doesn’t understand why. They grieve. They wait. They lose a little bit of trust every time someone breaks a promise. We can help them heal — we always do — but the scars stay.

Adopting a dog is not like ordering from Temu and deciding later whether to keep the thing or not. A dog is a living being, not a product you can return. Be conscious of your decisions. Think them through. Adopting is about responsibility, not convenience.

Dogs pull us out of the noise of everyday life. They demand our time and attention, and in return, they remind us what real connection feels like — the kind that can’t be fast-forwarded or bought. Building trust takes time, patience, love and effort. It means showing up every day, even when it’s messy, tiring, or uncertain.

Adoption is a commitment — a promise to care for a life you chose to take responsibility for. Don’t do it for praise or to look like a good person. Do it because you’ve truly decided to give a dog a chance, knowing it may not always be easy. It will require empathy, sacrifice, and endurance.

As much as we’d like to believe that life is only good when it’s filled with good feelings and that this is what happiness means, life is truly beautiful when we can accept ourselves, understand our own needs and limits and stand by our decisions even when we’re dealing with difficult emotions and challenging situations.