I'm The Only One Who Hates...

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by dissention

The reason I named her that is because after I told my friend Jamie how much I had paid for her, she remarked that the dog was "the saffron of dogs," i.e. outrageously expensive like the spice.

I had gotten numerous dogs from shelters and they all eventually died from being sick and I just couldn't deal with it again, it was too hard. But I am thinking of getting another from a shelter this summer.

I think getting a shelter dog is a great thing. The sad thing is as you noted, the shelter dogs tend to get sick more often or at least faster than a pure bred dog tends to. Though I think in its own way the procedure is a little cruel, I wish people would spay or neuter all animals they are not going to breed. That way, the amount of unwanted animals would be greatly reduced and people could try and breed a great number of diseases out of bloodlines.