My first cat as a kid had many nasty things done to her . she was hung from a fence by the neck, thanks neighbor kid . She was shot 3 times with a BB gun, one of them went through both cheeks . She ended up getting hit by a car in front of the house no less . I sort of blame my Dad for that though, he wouldn't let her be an "indoor" cat. We adopted a lost and found cat around the same time, she bit the neighbor kid (probably from him trying to strangle another animal) and his asshole mom took the cat and put her down (my family was soooo pissed off about that, but because she was a lost and found animal, I was told we couldn't do a thing about it)
Now all my pets (3 dogs and a gpig) are rescue animals. The gpig we got from Meijer's, the wife couldn't take the poor guy being in light 24x7, in a cage 1 foot square, we ended up complaining and now that Meijer’s won't sell any animals but pets (we called the humane society and I guess they came to investigate /yeah).
Essentially the wife and I plan to have two dogs and never from "new", we will always get rescue animals