Buy a dog first clear use
The use of the family dog is mainly divided into watchdog, play, companionship, participate in the competition, breeding puppies for sale, hunting, shepherding (city-raised pet dogs generally do not have the function of hunting and shepherding), according to the use of dog selection can directly help you choose to better suit your breed.
Dogs suitable for house-sitting
Common breeds of dogs suitable for house-sitting : Doberman Pinscher Rottweiler Pitbull Boxer French Bulldog English Bulldog Great Dane Saint Bernard Great Pyrenees Heeler Shepherd German Shepherd Schnauzer Yorkshire Dog Australian Silky
Dogs for Play
Common Breeds of Dogs for Play : Pekingese Toy Poodle Chihuahua Fawn Pomeranian
Dogs for Companionship
Common breeds of dogs for companionship: Golden Retriever, Labrador, Scottish Shepherd, English Old Fashioned Sheepdog, Husky, Great Dane, Samoyed
Purebred or Mixed Breed Dogs
Purebred Dogs
Pros: You can predict what your dog will look like when it grows up, including size, coat color and length, and even the dog’s general personality.
Disadvantages: Purebred dogs are prone to many diseases and need special knowledge and early prevention.
Mixed Breed Dogs
Pros: Although some diseases specific to purebred dogs can develop in mixed-breed dogs, the chances of developing them are relatively low.
Disadvantages: You can’t predict how your dog will look when it grows up, and it’s likely that it will grow up to be completely different from what it was when it was a child.
Buy a dog to choose a male or female dog
Male dogs
Male dogs are stronger, more dominant, and will seek to mate with females as adults, preferring to occupy territory and possibly being more protective of their families.
Female Dogs
Female dogs are more docile, better with children, and less territorial, but they require more of your time and attention when they are pregnant and have puppies. Of course, you can also choose to spay and neuter, spayed dogs are more docile.
Buy a large dog or small dog
Large Dogs
Advantages
Large dogs are less likely to be stepped on or tripped over.
A high level of exercise, and people who like to exercise can consider having a large dog to accompany you in your exercise.
Dogs that are well suited for companionship are large dogs, such as Golden Retrievers and Labradors.
Disadvantages
Large dogs need a large living space, generally recommended to have a courtyard family to raise, in the actual city life, it is recommended that about 100 square feet of the house can be raised, if the family is a small 50,60 square feet is not recommended to raise Oh.
Not suitable for often changing environment, natural behavior is more entrenched (except for the family dog group).
The need for food overhead to be large.
Need time and energy to walk the dog to meet its exercise needs, the amount of activity in the family indoor can not meet its needs
Small dogs
Advantages
Smaller dogs require less space.
Adapt more easily to changes in their environment.
Often easy to control their natural behavior.
Less money spent on food.
Disadvantages
Most small dogs are not gentle enough to accompany children.
Many small dogs are beautiful and require time and money for grooming.
Buy a dog to choose long-haired or short-haired
Long-haired dogs first beautiful, but beautiful is also to pay the price of drops, you have to have time to often give the dog combing, but also to go to the beauty salon to do styling, the most important thing is to lose hair, this is very important, if you have a cleanliness fetish, it is recommended that you raise short-haired dogs.
And short-haired dogs, although shedding less hair, but more likely to get a variety of skin diseases.
Buy a dog to choose a puppy or adult dog
Puppy
Advantages
Puppies are cute, easier to win your love and bring you more joy, and it is easier to develop a better bond with the dog’s father and mother when raised from a puppy.
Puppies can quickly adapt to their new environment, are easy to train and train, and can quickly develop good habits as required by their owners.
Disadvantages
Puppies’ immune systems are not well established and their resistance is poor, making them more susceptible to virulent infectious diseases, such as the common canine micro-virus and distemper. If you are not careful, you will have to pay more financially, and you will need time and energy to take care of your sick baby, and you will have to be prepared for a happy ending or a sad one.
Puppies are less tolerant, defecate more often, and haven’t learned to spot defecate, so you’ll have to be on his hip all day with a newspaper, ready to pick up his poop. Training your dog to poop at regular intervals is not something you can achieve in a short period of time, so you need to be prepared to be a pooper scooper. Puppies normally urinate 10-20 times a day and poop 4-5 times a day.
Adult Dogs
Advantages
Adult dogs are, firstly, cheaper than puppies, and secondly, more resistant and have passed the risk of many virulent infectious diseases, so they are relatively easy to feed.
Disadvantages
The affection of an adult dog is not easy to obtain, if the previous owner took good care of it and your care is not as good as the previous owner, then it will be difficult for you to obtain its affection; if the previous owner did not take good care of you, the dog will prefer you to the new owner after comparison, this can be done before adoption, learn about the past life of the adult dog and its owner.
Adult dogs may have some bad habits that you can’t anticipate because the dog is an adult, so it may take longer than a puppy to train to change its bad habits, and the results may still not be as good as they should be.
Suggestions
If you have the time and patience, having a puppy will be an excellent choice for you, but you will have to deal with the various problems he will have as a baby and teenager.
If you don’t have the time and energy to get a puppy, then choosing an adult dog may be better for you. Preference for an adult dog can be given to retired racing dogs, service dogs, show dogs, and dogs that just want a home and just want to be adopted.
Note that you must look at the eye, at least not to keep and raise the situation that you do not want to keep.
Characteristics of common breeds of dogs
Husky: very smart, but can not be trained. Like howling like a wolf. Obedience to the master in general, like all people, so can not watch the house, go out without danger.
Samoyed: similar to the husky.
Doberman Pinscher: More alert personality, very well trained. Very obedient to the master, can watch the house.
Great Dane: Very intelligent and well trained. Stable personality, obedient to the master, safe to go out, like to contact people or dogs, can watch the house.
Pekingese: Cannot be trained. Obedience is okay. Basic safety outside, can watch the house.
Toy Poodle: Very smart, can be trained basically. Good obedience, safe to go out, will not watch the house. Very attached to owner.
Chihuahua: Can’t be trained, poor obedience, will watch the house.
Fawn: Basically the same as the Chihuahua.
Pomeranian: Basically the same as the Chihuahua.
Golden Retriever: Very smart, active, well trained. Attachment to the master. Very safe to go out, like other people and dogs. But will not watch the house.
Labrador: Same as the Golden Retriever.
Scottish Shepherd: Mostly gentle and trainable. Very obedient to the master. The disadvantage is that it will not watch the house.
Hilary Shepherd: timid personality, very smart, can be trained. Does not like people other than the owner and will watch the house. Likes to bark.
English Old Fashioned Sheepdog: Gentle and generous personality, can be trained. Good to anyone, go out and do not cause trouble, keep in any place to adapt, will not watch the house.
German Shepherd: stable personality, very trainable. Very attached to the master. Can do everything within the owner’s reach, does not get into trouble, will watch the house.
Schnauzer: very intelligent, can be trained a little. Safe to go out, dependent on the master, can watch the house. Like to bark, love to plow.
Yorkshire: Very smart, can’t be trained. Safe to go out, but prone to attacking other dogs. Can watch the house. Likes to bark.
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