| Britster | 03-07-2009 04:55 PM |
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Originally Posted by veggienut
(Post 2507404)
It took me quite a few months of research, talking to people and etc before I took the plunge. If you get them from a shelter you don't know what health issues they have, what training if they had any, what damage they can do to your place of residence or how they will interact with you or your other pets you may have. So many dogs go thru the shelters and are picked up from the streets. I've talked with people whom got a dog from a shelter and within a week it died, literally. They would not replace it. I also was told that so many animals go thru the shelters and are checked by their Vet, but they have so many they can't check each pet totally.
| Well that's definitely not all shelters?
The place I always go to near my house keeps their dogs in fantastic help and are SO picky with whom they adopt the animals out to! You fill out an application first and then before you're even allowed to adopt the animal out, your current pets and fam members must meet the pet as well. And they come to your house to evaluate if it's a good environment. That's a no kill shelter. They have the same routine at the Pound/animal control place I visited.
And that's the point. Most of them need rehabilitation and if no one is willing to help & try, they just get killed. So why NOT adopt a dog in need, who may yes very well have anger issues, aggression, etc. It CAN be fixed.
On the other hand, you can also find a ton of puppies in shelters who have a fresh new slate! | 