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Adopting Your New Best Friend. Written by Best Friends Animal Society’s Humane Education Department. 1. A dog can be a member of your family. 2. A dog can be your very best pal. 3. Dogs love to play and have fun with you!. 4. Dogs love attention and time with us. 5.
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Adopting Your New Best Friend Written by Best Friends Animal Society’s Humane Education Department 1
But how do we find the right dog?Where do we go to find our new best friend? 8
But there are lots of dogs waiting for adoption at shelters and rescues. 10
What is the difference between buying a dog in a pet store and adopting a dog from a shelter? 11
The dogs in shelters and rescues have all lost their homes… 12
Some have never evenhad a real home before or anyone to love them. 14
They are all waiting for new homes, and hope that someone will pick them for a new best friend. 15
But many wonderful dogs in shelters never get homes because people buy puppies from pet shops. “Please adopt me. I am older but I will love you with all my heart.” 16
Many puppies for sale in pet shops come from “puppy mills” – places where mother dogs are kept in tiny cages to have their babies. 17
The puppies go to pet shops to be sold, but the mother stays behind to live in a cage forever. She will never have a home of her own. 18
Shelters and rescues have puppies. But keep in mind they don’t stay puppies very long. 24
… they will start chewing,barking, digging andgoing potty everywhere. 26
You can tell your friends and family about all the dogs waiting in shelters for new homes. 30
At the shelter, you can choose a dog who is a little older and wiser! 31