The frustration of dog shopping

[Muskrat]

Still looking for a dog. Kinda found a great rescue fog…but she weighs 54 pounds. Yikes. Then I spotted another perfect looking dog…they will only adopt to multiple dog households. Then there are the ones totally out of the area. Then I found one who is 8years old…they want 509 to adopt….and on and on…

 

[Pinky]

Sometimes, people advertise dogs free to a good home.
That's how we found our second Labrador Retriever, when he was 2.
There may also be older dogs who have been turned over to a shelter or Humane Society, due to elderly owners inability to keep them.

Good luck with your search for a loving dog.

 

[Dr.Colosso]

Then I spotted another perfect looking dog…they will only adopt to multiple dog households.

My goodness. That's why I bought a rabbit at a shop. The demands they sometimes have. A kid can live in a 1 bedroom but the dog has to have a yard and I don't know what.

 

[againstthegrain]

Many breeds have their own dedicated rescue orgs.

 

[Sunkist]

I don't know what's available in your area, but please adopt from a rescue or shelter, not buy from a breeder.. you could be the last/only hope a dog has from being euthanized.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

What type of dog are you looking for?

 

[Imogene]

Still looking for a dog. Kinda found a great rescue fog…but she weighs 54 pounds. Yikes. Then I spotted another perfect looking dog…they will only adopt to multiple dog households. Then there are the ones totally out of the area. Then I found one who is 8years old…they want 509 to adopt….and on and on…

I have rescued dogs, cats and horses my entire lifetime. I have scraped them up off of the road, taken them to the vet, and brought them home, knowing nothing about them. They stayed with me until their end times and most of them are buried in my pet cemetery.

My best suggestion is for you to go to a shelter, sit in a chair in their play yard and let the dog pick you. Because, honestly and respectfully, if you are that fussy, you are going to end up picking a dog that somehow someway is not suitable for your personality and living arrangement.

I don’t mean to sound rude, but I have done this so much in my life and I have seen so many mistakes that I can see a mistake possibly waiting to happen when I read it. And when you sit in the chair, make sure the Shelter managers don’t bring out dogs that way more than 35 pounds. There are a bazillion of them waiting for a good home.

 

[squatting dog]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Amen sister. Well said. You're correct... a dog will pick you, not the other way around. Luckily so far, I haven't had to build another pet cemetery (to join the other 3 on my previous properties) on this property, but, I know the day will come.

 

[Muskrat]

@Imogene …I might be considered picky. But in all fairness…the dog must fit with me and mine. There are about 2000 dogs up for adoption any given day in the phoenix metro area…my last dog was with me 16 years, the previous all longer than 12. They were happy, healthy and well suited to my lifestyle. Not all dogs that would choose me in a dogpark or shelter would do well in my life.

 

[dobielvr]

sit in a chair in their play yard and let the dog pick you

I love this idea....I've been seeing it done on my FB site.

 

[Imogene]

I love this idea....I've been seeing it done on my FB site.

It truly works. When I went to the shelter to get a companion for my red dog, after my husband and my Rottweiler, passed within six months of each other and devastated him, I was looking at a different dog than what I came home with.

And that is because the gray and white pitbull in my avatar picked me as her person.

Since I am a person who favors guard dogs, especially those that have not been treated fairly. I said OK let’s go and it was the right thing to do. She is very smart and opinionated, but I like intelligent/challenging, opinionated dogs. Not everybody of ethics wants a pitbull. People usually want them for all the wrong reasons, and she was in the shelter for one of those wrong reasons.