Love them or do not get them, it’s that simple.
– Anonymous

People who are passionate about having a canine always prefer centers to adopt dogs. You cannot buy love, but you can adopt it from an animal shelter. As the number of euthanized dogs is drastically getting higher, people could start adopting them instead of buying.

Reasons to adopt dogs

• Not only do they give you unconditional love, but they also develop an emotional and psychological bond with their companions.
• When you adopt dogs, you are saving their life by making them part of your family.
• Shelter dogs are so affectionate, but they end up in the shelter due to human problems and not because of their problems.

Places to find pet dogs
There are numerous pet adoption centers all over the country:

• The Best Friends Pet Adoption Center
• National Mill Dog Rescue
• Adopt-A-Dog Inc
• Hope for Paws

Tips to choose a pet dog

• Make sure that you can keep your pet at home. If you live in a rented house, check your lease to ensure that you are allowed to have a dog.

Ways to adopt dogs

• Find the best shelter you want to adopt dogs from.
• You can go to the place and see the pet.
• If you can feel any connection with the dog, ask at the shelter desk, and their volunteer will help take the dog out and you can meet them.
• You may have to submit a copy of your ID proof at the center to adopt dogs.
• Some of the shelters may charge you adoption fees, with an average of $25 to $150, but some centers receive funds from organizations, so you can adopt your canine for free.
• Make sure that you get copies of the sterilization certificate and pet vaccination records so that you can get the dogs you adopt licensed.

Store puppies

• Since dogs at the store are normally supplied by puppy mills, they are not a result of healthy breeding, so they are not given proper care before getting them to stores.
• As breeding at puppy mills is done without proper care, these dogs have traits of behavioral issues. Also, the staff at the pet stores are not likely to have received former training to deal with behavioral problems.
• Puppies separated from their mothers and siblings at the earliest stage, like before 8 weeks, do not develop canine skills and will not grow stronger and healthy.
• Since puppies have spent their short lives in cages, they do not get the opportunity of developing canine instincts, so they will have a problem when you try to house-train them.
• If you find a Labrador pup at the store, the situation is not necessarily what it seems to be. The store might trick you with certification and charge hundreds of dollars in the name of the pure breed, while it actually might not be a purebred Labrador. There is no guarantee of getting a purebred dog if that is what you are looking for.
• So, staying away from store puppies is probably a wise thing to do if you are seriously looking to adopt dogs.