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Pros and Cons when Choosing a Specific Breed of Dog
Westie Merchandise That Benefits Your Dog
There are many places to find Westie merchandise, but before you make a purchase for yourself or your Westie, consider .....
Pros and Cons when Choosing a Specific Breed of Dog There are many places to find Westie merchandise, but before you make a purchase for yourself or your Westie, consider .....
By Jon Dunkerlen
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Ok so you have made the big decision to purchase a dog. Whether the decision was yours alone, or that of your kid's, you being the voice of reason must determine the appropriate breed of dog that will be part of your family for the years to follow. Think of it as a trip to the grocery store. You have your absolute necessities, your health food, and your junk food.
Necessities
So you are at your wits end! Your kids are driving you crazy, 'we wanna dog, we wanna dog, we wanna dog!' You dream of puppies in your sleep, your kids demand animal crackers in their school lunches; they draw pictures of puppies and stick them to the refrigerator door. Just last night, you thought you heard your wife bark in her sleep You decide that living in this state of craziness is no longer acceptable! Your options are; get the hell out, invite your family to lobotomy class, or submit.
Junk Food
So you walk into the grocery store and immediately see this huge box of chocolate chip cookies. You know in your heart that you shouldn't buy the damn box, but no matter how hard you try, your mind will not waver from imagining big fat chunks of chocolate mixed with icing sugar as it dribbles down your chin and stains your nice new shirt!
We can and will use this same analogy when discussing the new addition to the family:
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Common clinical signs of hypothyroidism in dogs include weight gain, lethargy, reduced exercise tolerance and poor coat quality. However, the disease affects .....
Every year, thousands of dogs are purchased, adopted, or taken in by individuals acting on pure impulse. These people just want a dog, its cool to have a dog, oh wait till the girls see me now, nobody's gonna mess with me now' Common clinical signs of hypothyroidism in dogs include weight gain, lethargy, reduced exercise tolerance and poor coat quality. However, the disease affects .....
These people have no time to think about the implications to owning a pet nevermind which specific breed would best suit their living situation. They do not fathom the living cycle:
Mrs. Johnson walks into a pet store with her 5-year-old daughter. By the way, Mrs. Johnson is a single mother living in a 2 bedroom dump up town, and holds two jobs just to make ends meat. Upon entering the store, Jenny, Mrs. Johnson's daughter sees a little Husky pup and remarks emphatically that she wants this dog! Wanting to please her daughter, Mrs. Johnson works out a payment plan with the store, and the mother and child exit the store with the pup. Do you remember the big chocolate chips with icing sugar'
So the pup is now at home and growing rapidly! The child is in school all day, the mother is at one of her two jobs leaving the pup alone. All of us know what happens when young pups are left unavaded to their own device' Now the icing sugar is really beginning to drip'
Three months have passed and the mother is at her wits end! The daughter is no longer interested in the pup, the mother would rather mop the floor with it than take care of it leading to the pup being dumped at the nearest animal shelter! Stain'
The lesson here is simple. When planning on adding a dog to the family, research the different breeds that exist, to try to best suit the breed characteristics of the dog to your own living arrangements. ......
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