If you have children, you ve been there and done that. With an adult dog, it will only be the kids running amok, because your dog will be sifting calmly next to you, while your workday stress flows away and your blood pressure lowers as you pet him. Your donation to the rescue when adopting an older pup should get you a dog with all shots current, already altered, heartworm negative and on preventative at the minimum. When adopting an older dog from a rescue, all of those questions are easily answered. The rescue and its foster homes can guide you to pick the right match.
Puppy love is often no more than an attachment to a look or a color.
Good rescues do extensive evaluating of both their dogs and their applicants to be sure that both dog and family will be happy with each other until death do them part. Dogs who have been uprooted from their happy homes or have not had the best start in life are more likely to bond very completely and deeply with their new people. Those who have lost their families through death, divorce or lifestyle change go through a terrible mourning process. But, once attached to a new loving family, they seem to want to please as much as possible to make sure they are never homeless again. Those dogs that are just learning about the good life and good people seem to bond even deeper.