Fostered dogs often need to learn skills such as toilet training, walking on lead, and basic skills like wait, leave, and down (depending on the skills of the foster carer and the dog, of course) – a dog with life skills is less likely to have a failed adoption (returned to the ado...
Horrible Symptoms, Even After Many Years of ‘Allergies Treatments’ Blizzard’s Symptoms: December 2002: Blizzard “was” a healthy 90-pound, a five-year-old white German shepherd. During this past year, her health started declining... ...
Another option for getting a dog is to put out some feelers for your friends and family. You just never know if someone you know has been considering re-homing their pooch. Moreover, having an existing relationship with the previous family gives you peace of mind for adoption. Is there suc...
Bringing a new dog home is not like picking up groceries at the local grocery store. There is more to picking up a canine at the local pound, shelter or rescue. Just like adopting a human child, as a prospective dog parent, you must analyze the space of your home, confirm your financi...
get into their adoption program if there is space get adopted be taken by other shelters. If non of these 3 things happened, the dog was put down. 5 days are given to a stray dog with an ID (dog collar, microchip) but if an animal has no ID, the time gets cut to only 3 days...
Put on your poker face and step into beautifully detailed rounds that include a junkyard, pound, train car, den, and the dogs' favorite Chinese restaurant!PUPPY LOVE Fall in love with your brand new dream pet: the most adorable puppy ever!~~> Dress up and care for your puppy! Style, ...
So while responsibility has its place, my point is that responsible dog ownership need not by definition require neutering. Especially since in my view, neutering doesn’t improve a dog’s sociability, it inhibits it and can thereby hasten a dog’s banishment to the pound or euthanasia at ...
That reminds meof the importance of using positive reinforcement when dealing with the “gifts” left by dogs in public places. Understandably, people can get upset, even other dog owners, about feces left behind by owners who don’t pick up after their dogs. I well remember a time year ...
I didn’t state the obvious: that we had common sense and wouldn’t set Ben out with a forty-five-pound dog by himself upon arrival. We’d work up to it, eventually winding back around to what she and I both knew as the truth: like most mothers, I would be the one who ended ...
It___to me that last November, I once fostered (代养)a brown baby dog also called Winnie over Thanksgiving Day. I cried sadly for three days after she was taken away for adoption.I asked the woman___she had adopted Winnie with that name, She___. Then I asked when she adopted Win...