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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's what moved me up:  realizing that shelters arent going to have the dog I wanted.  So I stopped wasting time. A Golden Retriever with a cleared health lineage.  So I went to the AKC site and found a reputable breeder (ie one who cares about the quality of the breed and not just printing out puppies) and bought one.  His parents are therapy dogs...no, not the counterfeit-emotional-support-squirrel type animals people try to take everywhere.

I was extremely close to taking a golden from a neighbor moving out of the country, but he liked it enough he decided to bring it with him.  So, I tried all I could to adopt. 
I didnt want an animal with a questionable traumatic past and all that baggage, with my kids.  I didnt want some hyper tugging thing.  And I didn't need some imperious screener asking me if I ever had pet a declawed cat or planned to use an electronic training collar, which I do.

Now, that said, all I have now is a box of genes on 4 paws...I have a lot of work to do![/quote]

That’s great, but in our experience, rescue dogs tend to be the most loyal, long-lived and friendly. Designer breeds, particularly the “oodle” dogs, I’ve found to be assholes. Our neighbors have one of these and when we introduced the wife to our rescue, she lamented how she’s done with breeders. I don’t blame her. [b]Their dog nips, is unsocial and barks at every gd thing that walks by. They don’t have a fenced yard and the poor thing is crated a large portion of the day[/b]. Poor thing.[/quote]

That sounds like an owner/training problem where they got a high energy dog and don't take the time to train/socialize/exercise. Poor thing is right. [/quote]

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