I want a Puppy!
#21
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: wake forest, nc
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We just bought a black lab puppy to serve as my husbands companion---hubby has alzheimers'. Our puppy is Maverick and he is 8 weeks old and has already become the center of our household. My hubby absolutely adores him and is the most animated I have seen him in a long time. We found him through an ad in our local paper, also try Craigslist. Good luck------and plan on losing lots of sleep with a puppy----but, oh so worth it!!!!!!!!
#22
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Quilting, crocheting, sewing and crafting in my Sewing Room...Peaceful and wonderful !!
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Rescue or a shelter might be a good resource for you all .. LOVE my rescue dog, she is the delight of our eyes !! Right now she is in the bedroom snoring right next to her Da (He works nights as a truck driver!),so she crawls up there with him -after DH turns on the heating blanket which she dearly loves to sleep on !LOL (Nah..she's not spoiled or anything!LOL)
#23
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Barnesville GA
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#24
Research, research, research and be prepared to fall in love with that wonderful face that says take me home!! As per the lovely in my avatar, Peaches, when we were looking for a Boxer, LOL. I love the smushy face dogs!!!!
#25
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Barnesville GA
Posts: 3,181
A lot of shelter dogs are someone else's screw ups. Like not training them to potty outside, etc. Makes training them harder. Ask me how I know. My avatar dog came from a shelter. Get the breed you want and get a puppy and you both will be much happier. After having pure bred dogs, I can sure tell a difference. Spaying and neutering would keep the shelters unneeded. I spay/neuter all my pets as soon as they are old enough.
Not sure if this link will work but this is a foster working with a dog for a rescue I use to volunteer with. We always trained our dogs.
https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/246672357608/
#26
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: New York City/Manhattan
Posts: 1,316
go to petfinder.com, type in the breed you want and the area to where you are willing to travel. They offer rescues only. I recently located a chocolate lab purebreed from them. Sadly, he was the "stud" on a puppy mill and had been kept in a crate for likely all of his 6 years. When he arrived to teh rescue org. who saved him, his nails on all four feet were so long they grew over his paws and into the skin. He had ear infections too. Then, we discovered he also has epilepsy. Now, he is a wonderful, healthy, happy boy who loves us as much as we love him. There is no way I would go for a purebred puppy anymore unless I wanted to get into showing dogs. I don't! And, he is the third dog I rescued, all purebred labs. There is no other way to go IMHO. The dogs will show you more love than you ever knew existed, they want you to be as happy with them as they are with you. Give it a shot.
#28
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Lansing, MI
Posts: 1,038
Worth checking out anyway. And a lot of them can help transport a dog if you find one that's not nearby.
#29
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Lansing, MI
Posts: 1,038
A lot of shelter dogs are someone else's screw ups. Like not training them to potty outside, etc. Makes training them harder. Ask me how I know. My avatar dog came from a shelter. Get the breed you want and get a puppy and you both will be much happier. After having pure bred dogs, I can sure tell a difference. Spaying and neutering would keep the shelters unneeded. I spay/neuter all my pets as soon as they are old enough.
#30
I volunteer to walk dogs at our local SPCA, and they are so grateful for the attention! So many have been given up because families have moved, can't afford to keep it ,or it was lost with no ID. Can you image how that dog's heart is breaking for a family that is no longer there? Please check your local chapter! I'm sure you can find a lab that will win your heart! Like someone said, you can tell them what you're looking for and they can call you when they get a dog you want. But I bet you'll fall in love with another one at the shelter before that happens! Good luck!
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