By the way, I know I sound almost fanatic, but this is an issue that is very, very close to my heart. It would be for you, too, if you'd worked with rescue dogs for as long as I have. The horror stories of course are the extremes, but even the moderate stores are enough to make you want to cry. I do my part by talking to people like you, trying to make sure that they are educated and prepared to get a dog.... Dogs should at most ever have two homes.... Their birth home and their forever home. You wouldn't have a baby and then decide it was too much trouble or untrainable... The same should be true about dogs, too.
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“When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
~Sinclair Lewis
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