Children often ask parents to get a dog, but this important decision needs to be made on family council, having carefully discussed. If you in principle not against a pet, but do not know at all what dog to get which of canine friends will suit your way of life more, it is worth taking a break and to study a question in more detail.
How to choose a puppy
First of all it is necessary to refrain from spontaneous purchase of a puppy. Yes, thus it is possible to find the friend, but the pet who is too often brought under the influence of fleeting desire does not fit into a framework of family orders, does not correspond to a rhythm of life of people and is banal not to the yard.
The fact is that the desire to get a dog needs to be concretized as much as possible. All family be going to council, take the sheet of paper and begin to fill two columns. You bring desirable characteristics of your pet in the first of them, in the second those which someone from you (even only one family member) categorically does not accept, does not wish to see and will reconcile under what pretext.
And it is necessary to bring as much as possible objective and characteristic features what ridiculous they to you would not seem. So, for example, if someone from you categorically does not like prospect to see houses of a pool from a puppy, it is worth writing down this fact and to draw an essential conclusion that you need to look for the bred dog: 5-6 months or in general are more senior than the adult pet. Since any puppy about half a year can do the affairs in the house, and it is considered norm. Moreover, the kid will need special attention and care. It is necessary to feed a puppy of 2-3-month age 5-6 times a day that is a problem for family with a usual operating schedule. As a rule, new owners for 1 month of life of a puppy in the house take a vacation.
What lines of a dog can be important
In the same way you describe preferred (and unacceptable) not only behavioural features, but also an exterior: ears, tail, size of a dog, color, wool. Would you like to see plentiful wool as at a collie long-haired, or you prefer the minimum indumentum, as at the boxer whether you expect to receive the pet with trailing ears as at a spaniel, or you need standing ears. Perhaps, you consider dogs not higher than 30 centimeters in withers or, on the contrary, will look for someone not lower than 50 cm.
Surely specify if you prefer a hunting dog, perhaps, in the childhood you had such, and warm memoirs influence your choice what dog to get. However consider that working dogs demand increased loads, ideally close to their functions on hunting. Also if you specify the "guard dog" point, consider that to you not to pass an obligatory course of training with the pet, be realistic about the forces and opportunities.
Avoid stereotypes
Each of points will reduce the list of possible breeds for your family. So you will be able to detail the pet wished you in the maximum degree. And even if you will not be able to call as a result any breed on the list created by you, to you any dog handler or the manufacturer will help to orient.
During the work on a virtual portrait of future friend try to avoid stereotypes, for example, of such:
- small doggies it is better for children (actually many little dogs are afraid of children);
- from woolen dogs there is a lot of wool on floors (just from short-haired it more, paradoxically);
- small doggies it is not necessary to bring up and train (education is necessary and it is more difficult, than for dogs of average and large breeds);
- big and shaggy dogs approach only to the doghouse to the yard (truly partly, many not really high dogs can live fully only in the yard (likes, huskies) at the same time dogs more largely than their (collie) would prefer to communicate more with the owner, living with it in the house).
However, if all this knowledge to you to anything, you really can take the pet from the street, having made happy any not purebred Ball which will run for you. It is only desirable not to catch a dog from pack as such dogs in the majority run wild and do not perceive the person as the senior friend and the owner any more.
How to choose the breeder of a puppy
After you decided on breed, a floor and a color of a dog, find the film logical club, nearest to your house, and specify how the situation with this breed in your region is, perhaps, you should wait a dung or even to go for a puppy to other city. Do not recede from the dream if the next to you the nursery appeared for 1000 versts, it is better to spend even week for the road for a puppy, than 15 next years to live with feeling of disappointment.
If your plans for an occasion of the pet stretch further the dear sofa friend, you dream to submit an exhibition Olympus, to participate in cultivation, improvement of breed, you need to approach a question what dog to get, more carefully. It will be necessary to read standards of estimated breeds, to get acquainted not only with the manufacturer of your puppy, but also with other porodnik, beforehand to visit several large exhibitions. To learn features of breed, preference of judges and still there are a lot of nuances.