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I totally agree about getting an older dog. While your son may feel that puppies are "cute" and more entertaining and interesting than an older dog, he may have a better time bonding with a dog that is past the puppy stage. Personality traits will already be established so you won't have to...

It doesn't sound like a very good shelter environment, I have to say, but....I wouldn't have picked a beagle for a child. Or a JRT for that matter either. Honestly, if this were me, I would probably feel I had no choice but to return the dog to the shelter, but perhaps talk to the woman...

Too true.

I would have to agree with you on this. I worked for years as a vet tech during the Cocker Spaniel fad, when every other client had one, and it was the one breed of dog I could count on to snap when we tried to handle it. At our clinic, we had an unwritten policy that all Cocker Spaniels were...

This is exactly what I was going to say. This has been a recurring theme with my DD over the years, wanting a dog or a cat "of her own". The problem is that animals don't understand "ownership". I am the one who is home during the day when the kids are at school, the one who doles out the...