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I agree. The one caveat being that there are thousands of animals in shelters who are going to live in cages for years until they're killed. If the alternative is someone can adopt them and give them a happy life in a loving home, that's the obviously better option.
Breeders can go fuck right off, though. Every cat or dog bred into existence condemns an animal in a shelter to die.
Part of how I think about this is that the demand people have for owning animals creates the demand for breeders to make them. Simply not wanting pets would doom less to this fate.
Of course, this perspective is too reductive to capture what's really going on in reality. But I suspect it could prevent a good bit of animal harm.