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What To Know When Adopting Your Dog
February 17th, 2010
We have seen this image all too often. A pup is brought home to a giggling child so happy to have a cuddly little puppy with furiously wagging tail while kissing the child all over the face, a happy contagiously cute scene.
The excitement though wears off easily. Soon your dog will be peeing on the carpet, needing to be fed and watered, jumping on people, begging for walks, creating noise, uprooting plants, digging in the yard and messing around as all dogs do. Adopting a dog entails responsibilities such as grooming, taking it out for exercises, training and caring as well as feeding and watering. This is the bigger scene not usually imagined but just as real.
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