My family recently experienced the joys and frustrations involved with adopting a dog in the local humane society. Though the process concluded with the addition of “Dakota”, a beautiful Flat Coat Retriever, there have been bumps and detours on the way. The process also required a great deal of patience and willingness to compromise. Now that I think about our experiences, I provide the following tricks to those that may be thinking of adopting a creature using the humane society or other animal shelters.

There is certainly not as exciting as deciding to enhance your family if the addition is a touch person or a pet. If you have decided to look at the local pet shelter looking for children dog, congratulations on doing something positive for dogs or puppies that may not otherwise get the opportunity to experience home. Though it seems safer to obtain a puppy from the …