Choosing a puppy
Before choosing to have a puppy, a few considerations must be done:
1. Home
The home were the dog will leave is fundamental in choosing a dog. This doesn't mean to consider only the size or type of home (apartment, farm, …), but also if it is accessible or not to the dog.
For instance, the owner may have a big house, but if the dog only can access the yard, then it's home is the yard.
If the owner have a small apartment, but the dog only be there small periods of time, and in the remaining time is with the owner outside, as a companion in work and pleasure, them will be a dog that lives inside a house.
2. Availability
Dogs are essentially social animals that like to live in a group.
There are some races that tolerates better outside alone live, and other that needs company of people or other animal.
The owner availability time, has a big weight, since if he is absence a long period of time, will have to choose races that better adapts to this absence or to choose to have several dogs (sometimes cats and dogs also form family groups).
To live on a farm or yard doesn't mean that the owner doesn't spend time with the dog, since it is important the time spent for him to feel connected to the owner and part of a family.
3. Job
Dogs through time form partnerships with people, and were bread and trained to this jobs.
So we have breeds for pasturing, guard, hunt, company, ...
So some breeds don't leave well confined and without a job. For instance a Perdigueiro Português wouldn't be happy confined in a apartment.
This doesn't mean that isn't possible to have a kind of a breed, but means that training or some exercise, like agility, must considered.
The study and analysis of a bread must be done before buying that breed.
4. Maintenance
The maintenance of a healthy dog has some expensives that must be considered.
a) Feeding
Dogs should be fed with their on food and people left overs are not suitable for dogs.
The breeder or veterinarian are the best people to inform the owner about the food that should be given during the dog life.
b) Veterinarian
Every dog should be vaccine and desparitize annually.
Sickness and health problems, like in people, can also appear in a dog and some times this can be quite expensive.
c) Hygiene
Apartment dogs have more expenses, since is necessary to buy proper bags to collect droppings in the street or to traine the dog to use a place, like a sand box.
But farm or yard dogs also need cleaning of the dropping site, witch implies trash bags and cleaning with detergents.
5. Training
Some breeds imply more work and dedication by the owner for their training and socialization with people and other animals.
All dogs should have basic training, that can be or not administrated by the owner.
6. Breeding
To breed a dog is not something light, since implies expensive health tests (like genetic diseases, dysphasia, eyes,… ); expensive with correct feeding of the mother and regular visits to the veterinarian to watch the pregnancy mother and after birth health; feeding and vaccination of the puppies; and the possibility of not having a proper owner or devolution of the puppy.
After all considerations, the choice of mother and father must be made with careful and analyses, in order to keep the race standards and have healthy puppies with good personalities.
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