Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, try to find a dog owners/breeders forum. There for sure will be an info about breeders.
DCUM is great but not a dog specialty forum.

If I were you, I would get a rescue, rescues are the most appreciative dogs.

It's a dog. Not a human refugee.

It doesn't know it's a rescue, and it isn't capable of showing appreciation for something it doesn't know, no matter how much you try to humanize and infantilize its actions. It's a dog. A dog. Give it food, don't beat it, be nice to it, and it will be your friend.

Don't overcomplicate this.

Can you put what you said on a t-shirt? Because I would buy it.

My big, slow, stupid, fat, brother has one. So there's that.

Anonymous wrote:OP, try to find a dog owners/breeders forum. There for sure will be an info about breeders.
DCUM is great but not a dog specialty forum.

If I were you, I would get a rescue, rescues are the most appreciative dogs.

It's a dog. Not a human refugee.

It doesn't know it's a rescue, and it isn't capable of showing appreciation for something it doesn't know, no matter how much you try to humanize and infantilize its actions. It's a dog. A dog. Give it food, don't beat it, be nice to it, and it will be your friend.

Don't overcomplicate this.

Anonymous wrote:I have a friend on her 2nd Great Dane. The first one was a great dog but died when he was 9, so short lived for a family pet.

They were both great dogs but the short life span would concern me as would supporting the dog breeding industry in general.

Then how, pray tell, are we supposed to get dogs if no one breeds them?

Oh, right - you probably want everyone to adopt a pit bull mix from the local shelter. Uh, no thanks. I want a purebred dog from a breeder with a known lineage and temperament, not a roll of the dice on a mixed-breed fighting monster that will eat my face off one day while I'm sleeping.

OP, try to find a dog owners/breeders forum. There for sure will be an info about breeders.
DCUM is great but not a dog specialty forum.

If I were you, I would get a rescue, rescues are the most appreciative dogs.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Basically the popular large breed dogs in the greater DC area are hounds, doodles, standard poodles and thats about it.

THere are THREE goldendoodles on my block owned by different people and they all look identical.

They are all ugly, correct?