Not exact matches
They
ended up getting
pup Bo as a gift from friend Sen. Edward Kennedy, D - Mass., but it turns out the First Family has become part of a 70 - year journey to save an entire
breed by bringing home a Portuguese water dog to become the nation's First Dog.
In the
end, I came up with the idea for «Up For
Pups,» an organization that delivers humane education presentations to schools and other organizations with a message for people to know where their new «best friends» are coming from and help support legislation to strengthen dog
breeding regulations and restrict the sale of companion animals in pet stores nationwide.
Problem - Many farm
bred border collies and
pups from working lines, that should be working, are
ending up in pet homes.
Only to quickly realize that they don't have the time, patience, or experience to properly train and socialize their new
pup, which in turn
ends them up in shelters and on Craigslist, looking for a new home, which I'm seeing more and more, as the
breed becomes more popular and commonplace.
A hybrid dog combines the traits and characteristics of its purebred parents; with careful, conscientious
breeding, the resulting
pups may
end up with the best attributes of each.
If you simply love the
breed and are anxious to open your home to one, then you can easily find a
pup at the lower
end of the price spectrum.
Farms can legally shoot their own dogs so long as the person using the gun is capable of doing so - and those that
breed ten to 20
pups annually and kill off a corresponding number of older dogs each year, tend to choose this option for
end of life plan rather than going to the vet since, even though the vet would have to comply, it would still cause them to raise their eyebrows.
Most dogs that
end up in shelters are large
breeds and mixes often surrendered by people that did not understand the idiosyncrasies of the
pup they took home.
But if he went to a pet home and it proved to be an innocent murmur (one that is of no consequence to the pet & might even disappear), «Camo
Pup», who'd been
bred to be a high - drive working dog, might
end up frustrated and destructive in a quiet family home.