Another angle to consider is the financial one. Whatever the price you paid for your puppy, that price was for a cute, healthy, problem free baby. If you allow that puppy to learn bad behavior, become too much for children, develop bad outdoor habits, all these things will make it difficult to find a new home for the dog under any circumstances, let alone re-coup the origioal money you paid. There are many people who want a Dalmatian but either cannot cope with raising a puppy or find that their lives are not convenient for a puppy to fit in. Under these circumstances an adult Dal may be the answer.
Many breeders frequently have adult dogs who are looking for good homes.
These dogs are available due to a variety of reasons. It may be a dog the breeder planned on sshowing, but then changed their mind, it may be a dog who has finished his or her championship and is retired from the show arena, it may be a dog that the person bred and sold as a puppy who's family was not able to keep him. The age of these dogs can vary from a year to any age upwards. Good health, being a loving trustworthycompanion that can always be relied on, along with the breeder's guarantee that the dog can come back to them if the home does not work out. Most of the time there is no moneyinvolved in thee placements, but occasionally some litter or stud arrangments can be worked out if that is what the person doing the adopting wishes.