How Did You Get Your Dog?

[chocolatepuppy]

Lacey and Mandy both came from a shelter.

[binka_nugget]

Kaedyn's story is really long. Long story short, he was from the shelter. He was found wandering. The owners never claimed him (he had a license on him). I saw him during my first day as a dog walker volunteer and just knew I had to take him home.

Kai came from a breeder roughly 4 hours away.

[cocker_luva]

i got Jesse on Christmas of 1994! my parents got her from a breeder in Kentucky that shipped her here afew days before the 25th. my dad kept her at his contruction shop until the morning. (she loves it there; the people, machines, etc.) which is good because loud noises dont freak her out. i was sooo happy to find her that morning!

[ILoveMyAbbyGirl]

We got Abby from a breeder. My mom had an Airedale as a child, and she wanted another when we decided to get a dog. She was $700, and 2 and a half hours away, but it was well worth it!

Actually, she was in FLORIDA!! (Mind you, we are in Wisconsin... ) and we didn't know until we were almost ready to agree to take her... but we got SOOOOO lucky... The man who had her was vacationing in Kenosha, which is in Wisconsin, so we could get her.

And we decided to name her Abby, and we told the man, and he told us that it was her mother's name, too! So she's Abby the second...

[dogs_4_me]

haha Are story is.... A year after the death of my first dog, we went to watch My Dog Skip in theaters, it was upsetting, you no..Skip was in the vet and he gets beat up, we went to a pet store after to pick up some fish food, and looked at the dogs, you know how they circulate humane society dogs from pet store to pet store, well we saw the special one! He had been at the humane society for over 2 months, wouldnt want anything to happen to the pup! I guess i do believe in love at first sight, because i was never planning to get another dog anytime soon....hehe till I saw Moko!

and when getting Emma, we were at a pet show and the breeder was there, we saw here dad and mom, haha soon after we got our first golden

[Buddy Blaze Lover]

Well, I got Blaze (border collie) from a breeder a week after my previous border collie died about 2 1/2 years ago. He was 7 weeks old at the time, and has filled up that sadness that Bandit left behind when he passed away! I couldn't ask for a better dog!

[Kfamr]

I got all three of mine from the shelter...and wouldn't have any other way.

Simba came from the St Petersburg SPCA (www.spcaofpinellas.org)

Kiara and Nala came fom the Humane Society of North Pinellas (www.humanesocietyofpinellas.org/)

[veegan]

I had wanted a dog all my life, and actually we had had a Boxer for about 8 months several years ago but things didnt work out.. (long story *bitter*). but right before Christmas of last year my friend's oldest sister was looking for a new home for their 5 month old St Bernard/Spaniel mix and I asked my parents if I could take her. She was the sweetest dog, and she had already been trained fairly extensively, but they didnt want a dog, especially not a big dog. But.. it got them thinking, and they eventually said I could get a dog.

At first I was just thinking of getting a mix. Then I considered a few breeds. Seriously considered Pit Bull, Border Collie, but then finally settled on Aussie or an Aussie mix. It took a lot of persuading to get my parents to agree to an aussie, but once they met Brock we all knew he was the one.

I adopted him from Aussie Rescue & Placement Helpline, Northwest on Jan 26th this year. He had been in a foster home for a month before I adopted him, and previously had been found as a stray and brought to a shelter before being transferred into rescue.

[Cookiebaker]

We got Malone from an ad in the newspaper; and Emerson's breeder gave him to us because he wouldn't make a good show dog.

[Corinna]

I looked for Merlin for 4 years. I finally found a breeder that was MORE than I had been looking for. (I had raised and shown springers all my life . Dad raised hunting dogs)
Lady (newfy) came to us via my daughter she was working at the dollar store . She had a customer (70yr old lady) asking about her children , Clarissa just said I have furry kids . Then the lady started talking about this newfy she had and needed to find it a home. As her grandkids had moved in and brought their dog (he was used to the 2,4,6 yr old)
Lady wasn't a good kids dog too hyper,kept knocking them down. So daughter got her # and we called and well 2 years later shes still a nut and bouncy.

[wolfie]

How exciting chrissycat21! I bet that was the best birthday ever.

We got Cocoa when we bought a house and could finally own a dog. My mom's a teacher, and asked her students if they knew of any dogs for adoption, and we found Cooca. She was 2 1/2 and her old owners didn't want her anymore for some reason.

Daphne we got from the pound when she was 6 months old. I'm so glad we found her - she was supposed to be put to sleep that day!

[anna_66]

Mark worked with a lady who had a rottie and she had just studded out her male. We went to check out the puppies and what a disgusting place that was. They definately were back yard breeders (but we didn't know about them at the time). We decided to take one of the puppies & Mark definately wanted a male and Angus was the best looking one of the litter. Of course they wanted $100 more for him but Mark didn't care so we took him home and he's been with us ever since

Roxey we got from a pet store (yes, a pet store. Didn't know about puppy mills at the time). We had just lost our RB Keisha and just happened to be at the mall so we decided to check out the puppies so of course we did and after much debate we decided to bring her home. I've never regreted our decision, she is a wonderful dog!

And Huney well, she has a different story.
When we were thinking about getting another dog because Angus was so depressed after loosing Keisha we wanted a chow but were unable to find any. So when a co-worker called me and told me there was a chow pup dumped at her brothers house my neice and I went to check it out. Of course my intentions were to find this pup a home, but she turned out to be such an awesome dog we decided to keep her. She was the chow we had been looking for a year prior

[wolf_Q]

A guy my dad worked with mentioned that he had bred his schnauzer and they had one pup left they couldn't find a home for. I remember my parents talked about it with us kids, but never really said we could get the dog. Then one day my dad had me go with him (didn't tell me where we were going) and we ended up bringing Reggie home. He was an older pup (can't remember the exact age, it was so long ago) and he was free.

With Nebo, I had been wanting a siberian husky all of my life. That was (and still is) my dream breed of dog. My parents finally agreed to let me get a dog. Yes, I *had* to have that breed of dog. I wanted a puppy as well because we Reggie and Smokey were older and don't really like other dogs...I don't think introducing a large adult dog into their territory would have went over well. Anyhoo, I was REALLY excited about getting a siberian husky puppy and so I'll admit I didn't take much time looking. I wanted a black and white female. We looked at 3 litters. The last litter we looked at had two red males left. I don't know what it was about them but I just fell in love. I called the breeder the next day and told her I wanted one...the smaller, darker one with the cute markings on his belly. And that would be the Bebo Brat Boy....

Just for the fun of it I'll add Sydney lol. She's my sisters dog (from a breeder). My sister doesn't want to take care of her so she's been living at our house since the beginning of the year. I don't know if my parents will end up keeping her, she'll go back with my sister, or what.

[jazzcat]

I got Disney from a shelter. In 1992 I had to put my 11 year old poodle, Pepper, down because of illness and I wanted another pet. My husband didn't want a dog so he agreed to a kitten and I got Ripley. After a year with Ripley I knew that I still really wanted a dog and I begged hubby into letting me get one. He really didn't want one and he didn't like her at all at the shelter but I won out.

[molucass]

Molly:
When she was about 4 weeks old, I found her abandoned on the side of the road.. It had been raining a lot, and when I was going home from school, I saw her laying there in a little ball shaking, so I pulled over and went to see if she was ok... She was freezing and very scared, so I brought her home with me. Once my mom saw her, she couldn't let her go, and she's been here ever since.

Annie:
The people that had Annie owned both of her purebred parents. When I had originally went to rescue her pregnant half sister, Baby (she is a pug/boxer mix, and was pregnant by a boston terrier), I saw Annie and asked her if she was trying to find a home for her too (she was a tiny pup, then), and she said no, but that if she ever decided she didnt want her anymore, she would let me know..
Well, about 2 1/2 weeks after Baby's pups were born, she contacted me and asked if I would like to have her, and of course I said yes. She had told me that Annie and Baby's mom had been hit by a car and killed, and that Annie's dad died from heartworms. So that tells you what kind of home she was in.
We were originally just going to find a home for Annie, but I decided that I couldn't part with her... She's my baby.

Bailee:
Her mom, Annie, was in heat, and we didn't know it... We were babysitting our friends double dapple dachshund, and he got her pregnant....Annie never did get that fat, and I didn't know she was pregnant until I saw her puppies moving around. Bailee was the only girl in her litter, and the only black and tan dapple one.. My mom and I fell in love with her and decided not to find a home for her.

Felony:
After my little pit bull boy, Jackson, was killed my mom knew how upset I was, so she waited until a couple days before my birthday and went and got Felony for me. She had been planning it for a couple weeks. Unfortunately the people she got him from were very bad backyard breeders, and they lied to her.. They claimed that he was a full-blooded pit bull and even showed her his "parents". I got to see a picture of Felony being born, so I know that his mom was a pit bull, however, I guess we will never know what his dad was.