Learn about what you should consider when adopting a pet, and the benefits of adopting different breeds of dogs at different ages.

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Hi, this is Leslie and welcome to WatchMojo.com. Today, we are going to be talking about adapting a pet. This is Loca. If you can believe it, I only have a fear week and I adapted here from my local shelter. Come on Loca. Now here are the benefits of adapting a pet. Loca here is a 10-months-old and she was abandon by her previous owner. What fantastic about adapting a dog this age is that she already had enough training that I can take her into my house without worrying that she is going to defecate anywhere. And I also know certain things about her that she is well enough, you know like, she is strange. She can sit. She can give paw. She can do a lot of the basics. However, she still young enough that she is a puppy. So she still got a lot of energy and she is still really open to learning new things and meeting new people, which is pretty fantastic. Is not it Loca? Now another advantage to adapting a dog from your local shelter is that you are saving them from probably certain death with the exception of a few places like for example the North Shore Animal League in New York City. These places are very often force to put animals down after they pot them for several weeks. If they have not been adapted, they just do not have the capacity to keep them. So as much as I really enjoy the no kill facilities in this standing age, we have to recognize that sometimes dogs do you need to be put them to leave a place for another once. And that is why it is very, very important that we do two things. Number one, we should not be adapting pets if we cannot take care of them for their entire lives. Because what happens to them, they end up in shelters and very often they are being killed. Number two, if you are going to adapt a pet rather than going to your local pet store where the dogs have potentially come from people meals which essentially just means an unsanitary or just a not good puppy environment. We are very often the dogs are in bread. Very often they mistreated. They are not taking care off. They very often have diseases. It is a much better idea if you want a pure breed dog, should go to a breeder and if not to go to a local shelter and to get a dog like Loca here. Now, they do not only have older dogs at shelters. They very often have copies. Now, breeders are often very, very good and well respected. So I am certainly not talking about all breeders here. But there are some breeders that unfortunately in breed their dogs too much and that is why for example in the case of Golden and Labrador retrievers, you will find a lot of hippy shoes and knee shoes. What happen is like in any family, a blood line would be predisposed to a certain type of element. And if you breed dogs within that blood line over and over and over, they are going to become more and more predisposed to this element until all of their children have it. This is just common sense. So an advantage to a dog like Loca, who is clearly a mot, is that she is going to have less physical issues. She is probably going to have a lot of less some medical issues and she is going to live a lot longer which is great. So if you are not looking of a specific type of a dog for purpose, it is really good, very often to get a mot, to get a dog who is a real live, hence 57 as my grandmother would say. Loca here is part poodle and part terrier. So as a result, she got a really great poodle personality. She is totally hypoallergenic, but she is less predisposed to a lot of medical issues. I would say the best thing about adapting a dog from a shelter is first off that you are saving their lives. The most importantly, they know. They really, really now and these dogs are forever grateful. And very often and adapted pet will make the best pet like Loca here. I mean look at her eyes, seriously. Look at this face.