Dog Adoption Is It For You ?

Jeff Usher

There are lots of ways that people select a new family dog. Some may go through the newspaper for advertisements from breeders who are selling new puppies, others discover breeders via listings on the internet, while some merely purchase a puppy from a nearby pet store.

Possibly the best way in terms of being helpful to society in general is to adopt a dog from a local animal sanctuary.

Adopting a dog brings a new companion into your life. It also helps to reduce the number of unwanted and homeless dogs in your neighbourhood. Unless the shelter is a "no kill" facility (and these are alas few and far between) it will also save a dog's life. Animal lovers far and wide champion the adoption of dogs from shelters as opposed to any other way of bringing home a new pet for this reason alone, but there are other reasons to select the adoption alternative.

* Adopted pets have had their proper shots.

* Shelters often have acquired knowledge about a dog's personality.

* Adopting a pet frees space in the shelter for more dogs.

When you adopt a dog you can be positive that the staff at the shelter have had the dog examined by a vet for diseases and parasites and that the dog has had its shots. This is not always true of dogs acquired by other means, like children giving away "free puppies" from a box in front of the local store.

The dogs at a shelter are not just strays and often are turned in to the shelter by previous owners for a number of reasons. When this happens, the shelter collects as much knowledge about the dog as possible, including whether it's good with children, how much it barks, how fun-loving or obedient it is, whether it's housebroken, and other significant details.

Whilst it's true that this information is only as good as the integrity of the previous owner, most of the time it is quite accurate.

Animal shelters supply a valuable benefit to the community that they serve by keeping the streets as free of stray animals as they can. Because many of them do this with very little funding or support, they are limited in the number of dogs they can have in the shelter at any one time. The only way that they can bring in more stray dogs is if they remove the ones they currently have. This is done through adoption or, sadly, euthanasia.

Of course, they would prefer to have the dogs adopted rather than put to sleep. Adopting a dog could very well save its life and allows the shelter to take in another dog in its place.

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Jeff Usher is the owner of Dog Treats Revealed. For further information please visit his website:-
http://www.DogTreatsRevealed.com

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