Have you ever adopted a pet from an animal shelter?

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I was curious about just how many people had done this. I mean, you always hear about animal shelters being too full with pets and not being able to handle the ones they have, so I wonder how many people actually are adopting from them?Of course, I had never adopted from one until yesterday. All of our pets had either been strays, from one of our litters, adopted from another family member, or gotten accidentally. We actually won one of our dogs in a raffle. xD Second place prize was an American Eskimo puppy from a litter. We wanted the first place prize of $5,000...lol. We've only ever bought one dog and that was our pug because my mother had a pug growing up and she always wanted a black one. But yesterday my fiance and I finally made the decision to go to the animal shelter and pick out a cat, since our landlords finally gave us the ok to do so. We ended up coming home with one year old "Lenny", who we have renamed "Asriel". He is currently hiding under the bed and only comes out once in a while. He's starting to get used to us, though. I just spent the past five minutes rubbing his chin and petting him. ^_^ So I was wondering, have you ever adopted a pet from a shelter? If so, what did you adopt and what made you choose that one? When we saw Asriel, he reminded us both of my cat from back home, Pendragon, and Jake's cat from home, Dante (both of which look similar and act similar) and so we knew that he was going to be the one for us!