Where'd you get your dog?

[delidog]

Delilah...Pound
Joey.,....Pound
Hobo...Petfinder...Miami Pet Rescue
Maggie Puss...Pound

[clara4457]

Leo came from the SPCA - he was a special case and I had to qualify to adopt him. He was one of those 8 month old dogs that had not had any training and was totally out of control. They just wanted to make sure he went with someone who would work with him.

Penny Lane was from the Buffalo Animal Shelter.

[cloverfdx]

Penny- Freebie ,Her mum was supposed to have been spayed and was given to a family turned out that she was pregnant and she had 4 pups, her new owners gave us penny. then did not want an unspayed dog and dumped her at the lost dogs home. (We would have taken mum as well if we had of known)

Clover- Ad out of the newspaper, we payed $20 for Miss Clover who was one of 11 pups in her litter. The people had not spayed their Rotti and the ACD from up the road got to her

Theodore- Pet Shop unfortunatly we let our hearts rule instead of our heads. Mum had wanted a Chihuahua for a long time and when we saw Theo and his lil bro at the pet shop we could not leave him there. But never again will we do that.

I told my Mum i "needed" a new Flyball dog as Clover is getting older and is slowing down, and that i was thinking about a Border Collie. She thought one more dog would not hurt.

Elvis is from a from a farm (Working parents) his breeder only has one litter every few years, if that. only 2 of the pups survived and the breeders wanted to keep the female (the farmer likes females better for work)

In the end no-one wanted Elvis (he had been promised to me in the first place, but then the owner of the stud dog wanted a male pup but never came to pick hime up) so i got my Border Collie.

My next dog will be from Border Collie Rescue Australia, or from our local RSPCA. Preferably a Aussie Red BC female (there are quite a few getting around in rescue people get them because they "look nice" then find out what BCs are like and cannot handle them)

[Tonya]

Dusty was a long term resident at the pound. Roxy came from a sleddog rescue. (www.norsled.org)

[amoore]

Most of the dogs I have had are from people that did not want them for different reasons. Some has been dropped off by our house. I bought the last two dogs from breeders that was recommended by the vet. He did all the blood work for the breeders For them, and knew they were healthy. Jojo and Tiny are from different breeders. Both recommended by my Vet.

Sunnys mom was at a shelter were they are destroyed. A friend that worked there, told me they were about to put Elvira to sleep and that she was going to have kittens. I adopted her and kept two kittens and found good homes for the mother and the rest of the kittens.

[Logan]

Smokey, we are so glad that you showed up on the front porch that day............what enjoyment we have all gotten from Cinder's stories about you and Boots!!!

Lilly and Honey came from backyard breeders. I know that now, but I could not love them any less if I had bred them myself. They are perfectly wonderful girls!

Murphy came from a Lab breeder too. I only met her when she was 12 years old, though, through her dad, and now she's got a big 14th birthday coming up, and I love her dearly!!

Zipper came to us through Foothills Golden Retriever Rescue (www.fhgrr.com). We were only supposed to be fostering him........he stayed and boy am I glad about that!!!

Logan

[My Peanuts]

We got Sylvia from a pet store, which I'm more than a little embarrassed to say. It was back in June, but in the past months I have educated myself a lot more about puppy mills and overpopulation.
As a matter of fact, it didn't take even a month before I felt guilty and talked my parents into letting us adopt a dog from a shelter. Harley is from a shelter about 45 minutes from my house. In a way it was good that we got Sylvia from a pet store because if we didn't I would have never saved Harley from the shelter. If I didn’t see Sylvia in the pet store I would have gotten a Boston Terrier from a breeder which we were supposed to see in a few days. I read in the Pug book that Pugs like company and the rest is history. This is the first time I have owned two dogs!

[BitsyNaceyDog]

My precious pomeranian, Bitsy, was a gift from my fiancee 2 days before our wedding. He knew that more than anything I wanted a pom. He found a breeder and took me to pick her out.

[BitsyNaceyDog]

I got Charlie, my min pin, when we were looking for a companion for Bitsy. My friend told me that a lady she knew was looking for a home for her daughters min pin. Her daughter lived in Texas and was getting a divorce, and couldn't keep her dog. She flew him to her mom here in Florida, Shortly after Charlie was mine.

[BitsyNaceyDog]

Last but not least, Buster, my Chihuahua, was 6 years old when I got him. I've now had him almost 3 years. He had lived in a small rundown trailer with 3 other chihuahuas. They had all been abused and had never even been outside before. I don't know where the other 3 are today. It took a while for Buster to warm up to my husband and he still isn't real sure about any other men that come to the house. But he now knows what the sun and gass feel like and he loves it! We call him our little pig because of his cute little pink pig nose.

[BitsyNaceyDog]

oops, here is the picture of Buster. Now you can see why we call him our little pig.