Most of my pets are adopted/rescues as well. My oldest pair of cats were found as feral kittens that their mom had gotten hit by a car. They were 4 weeks old when we found them and were eating trash. They are 11 now. The younger pair came from a cat that was dumped and had kittens on my porch. Charm and her siblings were dumped at the pet store I used to work for. Chinchilla was a classroom pet that wasn't properly cared for - one of the kids took her home for the summer and gave her away to get proper care.

I did
buy Dax, but he was worth it.