Shelter Dogs - Will You Adopt One As Your Next Pet?住房狗-你会通过一个作为您下次宠物吗？

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How will you choose your next family dog?您将如何选择自己未来家庭的狗吗？ Perhaps look in the newspaper for advertisements from breeders who are selling new puppies, or find breeders via listings on the internet?或许期待在报纸上的广告育种谁是新的幼犬出售，或寻找物品通过育种在互联网上？ Hopefully you would avoid purchasing a puppy from a local pet store, as a large proportion of these dogs come from puppy mills.希望您将避免购买小狗从当地的宠物商店，作为一个大的比例这些狗来自小狗厂。 Perhaps the best method, in terms of being helpful to society in general, is to adopt a dog from a local animal shelter.也许最好的方法，从被帮助的社会，是采用一种狗从当地的动物收容所。

Adopting a dog brings a new friend into your life, as well as helping to reduce the number of unwanted and homeless dogs in your area.采用狗带来了新朋友到您的生活，并帮助减少一些不必要的和无家可归的狗在您的地区。 Unless the shelter is a "no kill" facility (and these are sadly few and far between), it will also save a dog's life.除非住房是一个“没有杀人”设施（和这些不幸的少之又少） ，它也将节省狗的生活。 Animal lovers everywhere champion the adoption of dogs from shelters as opposed to any other method of bringing home a new pet for this reason alone, but there are also other reasons to choose the adoption option.动物爱好者冠军各地通过从狗收容所，而不是其他任何方法把家里的新宠物出于这个原因，而且也有其他原因，选择通过选项。

· Adopted pets have been examined by a vet and have usually been given a clean bill of health通过宠物已经审查通过审核，并通常被赋予一个干净卫生的法案
· Shelters can often give impartial information about a dog's background, and its temperament避寒中心，常常可以给予公正的了解狗的背景下，其气质
· Adopting a pet frees space in the shelter for another dog to be saved and adopted out通过宠物腾出空间，住房另一个狗保存，并通过了

When you adopt a dog you can be sure that the staff at the shelter has had the dog examined by a vet for diseases and parasites and that the dog has had its shots.当你通过你的狗可以肯定的是，工作人员在住房已审查的狗由一名兽医的疾病和寄生虫，而狗也有杆。 This is not always true of dogs acquired by other means such as taking on an older dog from a private advertisement ("Dog Free to Good Home").这并非总是如此的狗获得通过其他方式，如考虑对老年人的狗从一个私人的广告（ “狗免费良好主页” ） 。

The dogs at a shelter don't consist only of strays or dogs that have been cruelly abandoned, but are often turned in to the shelter by former owners for various reasons.这些狗在住房并不只包括流浪狗或已被遗弃的残酷，但往往是上缴的住房由前业主原因是多方面的。 When this happens, the shelter collects as much information about the dog as possible, including whether it's good with children, how much it barks, how playful or obedient it is, whether it's housebroken, and other important details.在这种情况下，住房收集尽可能多的信息狗可能，包括是否有良好的孩子，多少树皮，如何玩耍或顺从它，不管它是housebroken ，以及其他重要细节。 While it's true that this information is only as good as the honesty of the former owner, it's usually reasonably accurate.虽然这是真的，这个信息是唯一一样好诚实的前老板，这是通常相当准确。

Animal shelters provide a valuable service to the community by keeping the streets as free of stray animals as possible.动物收容所提供了宝贵的服务，保持社会的街头免费流浪动物的可能。 Because many of them do this with little or no public funding or governmental support, they are very limited in the number of dogs they can have in the shelter at any given time.由于许多人这样做很少或根本没有公共资金或政府的支持，他们是非常有限的一些狗，他们可以在住房在任何特定时间。 The only way that they can bring in more stray animals is if they remove the ones they currently have.只有这样，他们可以把更多的流浪动物，如果它们删除的，他们目前有。 This is done through adoption or euthanasia.这是通过收养或安乐死。 Obviously they would prefer to have the dogs adopted rather than put to sleep.显然，他们希望有狗，而不是通过把睡眠。 Adopting a dog could very well not only save the dog's life, but it allows the shelter to bring in another dog in its place.采用狗很可能不仅保存一条狗的生命，但它使住房将在另一狗在它的位置。

(c) 2005, Brigitte Smith, Healthy Happy Dogs （三） 2005年，布里吉特史密斯，健康和快乐的狗

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