Recently I have been reading more about ?holiday puppies?, ?pet shop puppies?, ?puppies that are too young to bring home? and ?did I get ripped off?? So I decided to share my thoughts on this post. I am not going to write anything new but same old. Here I am.
Many of us go crazy on cute or/and cool things. When you see them, you want to buy them. When the holiday comes, you tend to jump on things much more often or choose to beg your significant others to get you whatever you WANT it for Christmas, Valentine?s Day, your birthday, your child(ren)?s birthday or your anniversary. Though I feel dogs should not be the ones that you jump to buy because you want them right now. There is one exception on buying a dog on a holiday or any special occasion and that is only if you have gotten to know the breeder, researched the breed and be ready for a new dog. Then I am fine with people celebrating the special day with your new dogs.
People, who have been on YT for past 1.5 yr, know about my journey to get my Haruka. I am actually proud of my journey. It was tough waiting for the right one, but every minute was worth it. I just would like to share new YT folks and hope that my experience can be helpful for you when you start looking for your dream dog.
Process that I took!
1. I was born as a pet lover! (year 1976)
2. I had dogs growing up in Japan (Year 1988-1996)
3. I came to US. I was really lonely without family, and couldn't visit my family while in college. I kept hugging my dog stuffed animal. (1996-2001)
4. I started working in 2001. (2001)
5. I met my colleague's dogs, Guinness, the yorkshire terrier and Kahlua, the shih tzu. (June 2005)
6. I lived in an apartment with no-pet-policy. So I decided to dog sit my friends' dogs. Sometimes I watched them at my apartment and I kinda let my landlord know. I learned how to wash dogs, walk them and love them. (June 2005)
7. I started researching about yorkie and joined YT. (September 2005)
8. I traveled to California with Guinness. I paid for pet fee of Guinness as my expense. -it was definitely a great experience to make sure that I could travel to my future dog. (sometime 2005)
9. I started looking for contacts of YT breeders and research them online. (Sometimes 2005)
10. Kahlua got really sick, started throwing up blood etc under other friend's care. Since my friend got scared, I brought Kahlua to Emergency Animal Hospital. I saved her life
(sometime 2005)
It continues as I keep writing.