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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 shephering, 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.
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