How Much Does It Cost to Own a Dog?
Plan on 1,500 to 3,000 dollars for the first year and 1,000 to 2,500 dollars a year after that, which puts a…
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Adopting a Senior Dog: The Best-Kept Secret in Rescue
In every shelter there is a dog the visitors’ eyes slide past. It is seven, or nine, or twelve. Its muzzle has…
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Fostering a Dog: The Job Nobody Explains Properly
Fostering is the most under-explained job in dog rescue. People imagine it as adopting with extra sadness, and so they never try…
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What Shelter Staff Wish Every Adopter Knew
Spend an afternoon behind the desk at any shelter and you learn things the adoption brochures never mention. The staff and volunteers…
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Adopting vs. Buying a Dog: The Honest Version
This is the most loaded question in dogs, and most articles answer it by yelling. We would rather answer it honestly, because…
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How to Choose a Dog Breed (Honestly)
Most people choose a dog the way they fall in love: on sight, against advice, and with total confidence in a stranger….
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The First 30 Days With Your Rescue Dog: The 3-3-3 Rule
The dog you bring home from the shelter is not yet the dog you adopted. That sentence confuses people until they live…
