What you must know before acquiring a dog.
Are you in search of a marvelous companion, faithful and loving, who will know how to fill all your wishes? After all your investigations, you have decided to opt for a representative of the canine species? After having spoken to 2 or 3 of your friends, so-called specialist on the subject (evidently, they had a dog during....... at least 2 months) you think that you know enough and you feel ready to make the big jump?
However, remember that if you are not ready to make some supplementary efforts to assure that you will be able to satisfy his primary needs in food, exercises, training and health care. In addition if you don't have any time to dedicate to him, don't go any farther, buy a beautiful small dog in plush that you will place in a small corner of the house where you will be able to admire him.
Remember this:
"When you buy a living creature, you must do so with a great respect for life. On the other hand, inanimate objects don't suffer of carelessness or bad treatment. Besides, if you change your idea, you can still resell them and children won't cry, you won't have a period of transition following the separation and finally remorse won't gnaw at you. "
If you are ready to do some more, if you want indeed a healthy relationship with the one that will become your best companion, pursue your search. Then, if you believe that we exaggerate telling you all this and you decide "to take a chance"....., here are exemples of the type of master you could become:
Script 1 :
You go to the pet shop and ask the first seller who passes to show you some puppies. Children spend a little time playing with the small balls of hair. After that, they will indicate to you the puppy of their choice and they succeed in convincing you that it is the good one and that they are not able to leave him there. You arrive home and the first day, everybody is around him, to play and to pat him. Little by little, it fades away, no one wants to take care of him.
Some small mess accumulate and no one wants to take care of them. The little friend becomes bigger and bigger, eats more and more, makes more and more mess.... little by little, you regret your purchase and you finally decide to drive him to the pound or even have it euthanasier. End of the story for you, but another poor dog loses his life.
Buy a puppy on a whim, you, never! ! !
Script 2:
Your family procures a young puppy, healthy, full of life and liks to play. Quickly, it grows, children begin to lose interest in him and don't respect their promise to take care of him. Of course, you to, either by lack of time or by carelessness, don't want to take care of him either.
Therefore, your supposed friend, is placed in the back of the yard, linked to a four foot chain. You will feed him with table scraps and will only give him water when you think about it. Good weather or bad weather, cold weather in winter and in the sun in summer, without protection, he will wait tirelessly that someone condescends to take care of him. You abandon him for a entire, left to himself, walks and races are unknown to him.
Then, neighbors complain about his barking, children in the neighborhood tease him and hurt him. He becomes apathetic, frustrated, then finally aggressive. Then you take the decision to destroy him. The following day, children moan to have another dog and the process restarts.
Cruel and neglectful towards dogs, you, never! !
Scénario 3
Your aunt ,Hariette, has just acquired the most beautiful little puppy you ever saw, she likes him a lot. Very quickly, her cherub grows and grows again. Of course Hariette raised 5 children, but she doesn't know anything about trainning a dog. Very quickly, no one except Hariette can approach the cherub, becoming intolerant to everything who walks on 2 legs. But this is not serious, she said, because she likes him a lot.
He urinates every time that a stranger approaches him, does everything that he wants in the house including chewing in sight. With his 50 kilograms, he jumps on all children, nearly knocking them down every time, this is to play of course. But, this is not serious said Hariette, because her dog is very nice.
Soon, no one wants to see aunt Hariette and of course not her dog. Neighbors fear to let children outside fearing to meet " the monster dog ". This is Now Hariette dog that runs the house. Evidently, she must now leave him home when she goes out because no one can stand this dog. Finally, at the end of a certain period of time, aunt Hariette, exasperated and wanting a little more liberty, must get rid of her dog. However she will confess to understanding nothing about it, he was so nice that dog.
Hariette, unable to educate her animal decently, impossible ! !
Now you know what is not good to do, fallow your search to the next step and see if your mind is good:
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