| Choosing the right dog breed for you, your family | | | | family requires a lot of hard work over the first few |
| and lifestyle is the most important decision you can | | | | months, especially in house training. So you have to |
| make before bringing the dog home. Get this choice | | | | be certain that you really want a dog before taking |
| wrong and you end up with one of two results. | | | | on the commitment.With over 200 breeds of dog in |
| Either you end up saddled with a dog that is wrong | | | | the world how do you decide which is the right breed |
| for you and your family, a dog that is basically | | | | for you?There are a few basic questions you have |
| unwanted and unloved. A dog that is a chore to look | | | | to ask yourself to narrow the choice down.How |
| after. Or you end up taking the dog to a shelter for | | | | much space do you have in your home? Obviously a |
| re-adoption or worse yet abandoning it. Neither | | | | large dog in a small apartment is a mismatch, a recipe |
| option is good for the dog.You also need to be | | | | for disaster. Toy dogs, such as terriers are a better |
| aware that the cute little puppy you bought home | | | | choice for this situation.Do you have children and how |
| will not stay a puppy for long. Before too long he or | | | | old are they? A large dog puppy such as a Great |
| she will be a part of the family that you will have to | | | | Dane or Saint Bernard could easily bowl a small child |
| care for over the next ten years or longer.To make | | | | over. On the other hand, toy dogs can be very |
| this new addition a valued and loved part of the | | | | fragile and easily injured by a small child playing with it. |