Having adopted a puppy last year, I'll offer my $.02 Skip the rescue organization, go straight to the shelter. The rescue orgs are great, but they basically offer the same thing the shelter offers at a significantly higher price, and often the foster parents are not suited for having as many animals as they do. In my area, i noticed many were extremely dirty and kept outside in kennels.
After doing some research, I found that most of the rescues simply go and pick up dogs set to be put down from the shelters, then organize foster parents and the adoption things at pet stores. When I went straight to the shelter, I found that while the dogs obviously weren't at the Marriott, they were in large enough kennels to walk around in, had company because most had 4-5 dogs/kennel, and the shelter had the same offerings as the rescue org for half the price. I got my wonderful puppy with all shots, spayed, microchipped, etc. for just over $100, whereas the rescues were looking for $200-$300, sometimes not including rabies vaccine. My second recommendation is to not get a puppy. If you don't work at home or are retired, it is just too hard to look after them and take them out every 2 hours as they should be. It's very likely you will find a wonderful 1 - 2yr old dog that hasn't necessarily been abused, and will have forgone most of the puppy headaches. Heck, you may even find one that is already housetrained. It is also a lot more likely that you will get a dog that is the size you expect, lol. I was warned that my dog would be HUGE!, and to be ready, but she is 50 lbs and pretty much done growing. My friend who adopted at the same time from a different shelter got his puppy, and had no idea she would only be 30 lbs max, both of our situations were surprises. The people at the shelters were really great too, I am actually planning to bring mine back to show them how great she is doing. On Dec 29, 9:23 pm, deborahjeanne <[email protected]> wrote: > Part of my problem is the not knowing if I will get it, get all > excited, then someone else gets the dog. (Its hard when you have > specific wishes, like a small dog, and you have kids - a lot of the > rescue dogs say no kids) > > On Dec 29, 6:18 pm, Iron Brigade <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Dec 29, 7:51 pm, deborahjeanne <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I sent in an application to a dog rescue to adopt a dog.... > > > Best thing I ever did was adopt a dog from a rescue group. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BGG Down" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/BGG_down?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
