Bringing Home A Pet Means More Than Simply Bringing It Home - It Is A Huge Commitment! Are You Prepared?



Are you're responsible pet-owner? The millions of us that own pets believe that we can honestly say yes to this question. However most of us don't support the compassionate society or the local animal shelter by adopting animals from the programs. This is the responsible thing to do as a pet owner.

I'm not suggesting that every pet owner needs to go adopt a pet from the shelter, but a fiscal donation is a fantastic way to insure that these programs can keep going. Also if you're a pet owner that breeds your pet, make sure that the people who adopt a pet from you're going to be responsible and will provide a good home to the animal. For instance, if it has a problem like excessive barking, what's the plan? Behavior modification? An anti bark collar?

Every once in while this may be hard. When our canine had puppies we had to deny one couple from purchasing one of the puppies. We have Labrador Retrievers. This is a good example of a breed that could necessitate an anti bark collar due to a barking training issue. They typically have very large litters. Our canine had twelve puppies that we needed to find homes for. My husband is a hunter and our dogs are whistle and hand trained, so there were many hunters that had requested a pup prior to the litter arriving. However due to the fact that she had such a large litter we had two puppies that were not spoken for. We ran an ad in a weekly sportsmen's paper that we would take applications from people that wanted to adopt a pet. We had developed a questionnaire that we used as an application. The question-form asks how many hours a day the animal would be by myself, how many hours the owner had to exercise the animal and how often they typically take their animals to the vet.

A number of individuals think that this is a strange form to write out, but we feel that we have an obligation to the breed to make sure that the people that are going to own the dogs are going to take good care of them. We check out each person that wants to adopt a pet from us. We want to make sure that the animal is getting health care, like you would seek should training tools like an anti bark collar not be effective, good food and exercise. We also want to make sure that the animal is neutered or spayed if the owner isn't going to be responsible in looking into the breeding lines. The retriever breed is quite common so it's important to keep healthy blood lines for those of us that want pure breeds. Due to the number of retrievers that are available some breeders are trying to breed specialty lines in regards to color or skills, such as pointing. This can cause bloodlines that are too close which results in dogs that have high medical needs. Our system of asking questions to the people who want to adopt a pet from us isn't going to make a huge difference, but at least we feel we're not adding to the problem of weakening the breed.

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