that even generalizes to having "adopted" rescue animals, i confess and know innumerable others would too: one adopts them because they're good earthlings too,

that even generalizes to having "adopted" rescue animals, i confess and know innumerable others would too: one adopts them because they're good earthlings too, and while not genetic offspring, adopters feel they join a family which you don't want to have disrupted by horrid illness.