Having hard time adopting dog

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Anonymous wrote:Look into Rural Dog Rescue based out of DC. Most of their dogs are hounds from the south. Hounds are great family dogs and are often very gentle with children and other dogs. Good luck!

+1 to the hounds! We have two hound mixes and they are amazing. I am a hound convert!

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Anonymous wrote:Having been through the wringer with rescue dogs and kids (rescues were great when I was single) I would say definitely go for a puppy. I would advocate for a smaller and chiller breed though. Goldens are wonderful but very challenging puppies, and big. Unless the breeder you are working with is really good about matching puppies and families, and/or has calmer lines (they exist!), I would pass and look for something more manageable.

What makes a Golden challenging as a puppy ? (I have owned & raised Golden puppies and do not understand your comment.)

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Anonymous wrote:How young are your kids?

Op - kids are 2, 6 and 8

I would pay for a breeder (and this is what we did too).

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I got the runt of a lab litter last time around, and then this time a twoish from a rescue. The puppy was a lot of work. The rescue has been that times 4. Two years of terrible habits and neglect that we have to overcome (and the dog is sweet and obedient half the time. It's like Jekyl/Hyde, and the monster comes out at inopportune moments). All that said, if you can, try to rescue one. They don't make it otherwise and that's a real shame.

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Anonymous wrote:Having been through the wringer with rescue dogs and kids (rescues were great when I was single) I would say definitely go for a puppy. I would advocate for a smaller and chiller breed though. Goldens are wonderful but very challenging puppies, and big. Unless the breeder you are working with is really good about matching puppies and families, and/or has calmer lines (they exist!), I would pass and look for something more manageable.

What makes a Golden challenging as a puppy ? (I have owned & raised Golden puppies and do not understand your comment.)

I'm curious about this too. I have two Goldens as well as two young kids and my Goldens were...pretty darned easy? Housetrained by 12 weeks. Never hyper as long as they get their morning 1 hr walk. Very polite.

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There will be several lab mix puppies at this event tomorrow. Not sure where you live, but you could likely get one if you go.

This looks like a really good option, OP.

If you're willing to wait, Big Fluffy has a bunch of young puppies (we place them around 12 weeks old) coming up.

5 'C' litter puppies - Hound/Pyrenees/Anatolian mixes
9 'E' litter puppies - Dad's a Pyrenees, mom we don't know (dad/puppies dumped at a shelter)
5 'Q' litter puppies - No idea what they are, besides cute. Tan and Black/tan puppies
2 'M' litter puppies - Black and brindle

These are in addition to a litter of bottle fed puppies that are still very young (a week or two old), and another litter of 8 or 9 that are less than a week old. These are just the ones I'm aware of, so there are probably more. If you're interested, you can put in an application, and specify that you're looking for a puppy under 16 weeks old (and any breed requirements).

OP here - thanks! I will put in an application. We are actually very interested in a Pyrenees

They bark like crazy.

I adored our Great Pyrenees to the moon and back. But their job is to bark all night, to warn predators that there's a Big Dog Here. I found the bark pleasant, and we don't have neighbors, but if your situation is different, they might not be the right dog for you. As the saying goes, if the dog is barking and the sheep are quiet, everything's fine.

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Look in Prince George's County MD. No pit bull can be adopted / sold there. You might have better luck with a rescue.

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Anonymous wrote:Look into Rural Dog Rescue based out of DC. Most of their dogs are hounds from the south. Hounds are great family dogs and are often very gentle with children and other dogs. Good luck!

+1 to the hounds! We have two hound mixes and they are amazing. I am a hound convert!

+2. Worst part about my hounds is they’re very barky. Other than that, they are the sweetest, cuddliest, most docile dogs. I NEVER have to worry about aggression. There’s a reason (sadly) beagles are used widely as lab dogs - they’re so gentle, docile, eager to please.

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Anonymous wrote:How young are your kids?

Op - kids are 2, 6 and 8

I would pay for a breeder (and this is what we did too).

This is what I came to say too. I would just buy the dog you want as a puppy and be done with it. Of all the stressors to come with having a puppy, no need for the headache of the applications/interviews/etc process of dealing with a rescue in advance of that (sorry rescue volunteers that have posted, I understand you are following the established protocols). I appreciate rescue organizations want to find good homes, but have found the process to be completely over the top. If you want a puppy and have a specific breed in mind and can afford it, just buy the one you want.

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Anonymous wrote:Look in Prince George's County MD. No pit bull can be adopted / sold there. You might have better luck with a rescue.

This “American Bulldog” is definitely a pit bull https://24petconnect.com/DetailsMain/PGEO/A531070

As is this one https://24petconnect.com/DetailsMain/PGEO/A531071

And this one https://24petconnect.com/DetailsMain/PGEO/A531072

The dogs labeled as Presa Canario and Cane Corso are also suspect, not that those breeds are actually less dangerous.

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Anonymous wrote:If you have young kids, you want to know the history of the dog and if dog was properly socialized. Especially if you don’t have a lot of experience with a dog.

We wanted a shelter dog, but realized with a young kid and first time owning a dog as an adult, we didn’t want the risk. It was worth it to buy a family friendly breed.

Exactly. With three quite young children, you need to know exactly what you are getting and the type of home the puppy is born and living in for those first weeks. Think rescue when the kids are much older, not when your youngest is just two.

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A forever home - out of Chantilly. We adopted a wonderful lab/hound mix from them 12 years ago!

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Anonymous wrote:Our pit is the sweetest dog with our kids. If you’re looking to adopt you may want to reconsider your breed restrictions.

Big mistake

Please spare us your ignorance.

Stop with the sweet little pittie nonsense. Anything bred to fight has unpredictable genetics. If you feel lucky-fine. Others don't & that's fine.

+1 why would you risk something awful like this happening.

As per Time magazine -Pit bulls make up only 6% of the dog population, but they're responsible for 68% of dog attacks and 52% of dog-related deaths since 1982, ...

So if pit bulls are only 6% of the dog population it should be eays to adopt a non-pit bull then right? Except if you believe the posters here 100% of dogs at shelters and rescue organizations are pit bulls. Hmm…

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Anonymous wrote:Our pit is the sweetest dog with our kids. If you’re looking to adopt you may want to reconsider your breed restrictions.

Big mistake

Please spare us your ignorance.

Stop with the sweet little pittie nonsense. Anything bred to fight has unpredictable genetics. If you feel lucky-fine. Others don't & that's fine.

+1 why would you risk something awful like this happening.

As per Time magazine -Pit bulls make up only 6% of the dog population, but they're responsible for 68% of dog attacks and 52% of dog-related deaths since 1982, ...

So if pit bulls are only 6% of the dog population it should be eays to adopt a non-pit bull then right? Except if you believe the posters here 100% of dogs at shelters and rescue organizations are pit bulls. Hmm…

Spay and neuter rates for all dogs are around 80 percent, but the rates for pitbulls is around 20 percent, hence them being disproportionately represented in shelters. They're breeding and being bred like crazy and their owners are less responsible about making sure that doesn't happen.

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Anonymous wrote:Our pit is the sweetest dog with our kids. If you’re looking to adopt you may want to reconsider your breed restrictions.

Big mistake

Please spare us your ignorance.

Stop with the sweet little pittie nonsense. Anything bred to fight has unpredictable genetics. If you feel lucky-fine. Others don't & that's fine.

+1 why would you risk something awful like this happening.

As per Time magazine -Pit bulls make up only 6% of the dog population, but they're responsible for 68% of dog attacks and 52% of dog-related deaths since 1982, ...

So if pit bulls are only 6% of the dog population it should be eays to adopt a non-pit bull then right? Except if you believe the posters here 100% of dogs at shelters and rescue organizations are pit bulls. Hmm…

Aren’t dogs that people generally refer to as pits among the least likely to have been bred responsibly? And among the last picked by adopters because of their terrible reputation? Go look at the dogs available in your county shelter. Most of them would be categorized by the average person as a pit or pit mix.