Puppies for sale banners flourish in our suburbs during summer time. It is never easy to resist it when you find pets for sale but you definitely should behave and think about it twice before making such an important decision. Indeed, even the littlest pet can fast become a problem once you've shopped it.
Actually, right after you buy a pet, you will also need a pet insurance, because medical treatments for animal are very expensive. You will also have to change your habits: pet friendly hotels are rare and even if you find one, it is surely more expensive than other ones. Animals need love and affection. So far I guess you can provide this. But in the long term you may find it more painful than lovely because of all the attention they request. It is a real investment. And do not think that you can work things out starving your pet or anything, because animal control will look after you and it will be even more costly.
Of course it is easy to be defeated by the temptation of getting one, especially if you visit animal shelters and decide you want to help one of them that you can get for free.
But even if you decide to go through pet adoption, you should really be careful. As any animal shelter manager will tell you, these animals are already so disturbed of getting abandoned or ill treated, that they will hardly survive a second disillusion.