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Adopt a dog. You know, one of the best things we can do with our lives is to help someone, or something. There are so many lonely and lost animals in the city pounds and the kennels or the many rescue organizations that they are overflowing.

What happens to them? The answer is pure and simple. With the majority of city pounds, an animal that has not been adopted within a specified time period is euthanized. They don’t like to do it, they don’t want to do it, but in many cases they have no option. Their criteria are to remove abandoned animals from the city streets. If they are left to roam they can become feral and a nuisance.

With rescue organizations, the majority have a no kill policy unless the animal has irreparable health or is a danger to society. These organizations are run by good hearted people working on a voluntary basis with little or no funding. They accept all that they can – more than they can in a lot of cases – because they do not them to befall the ultimate fate.

I have worked with many of these organizations from nationally renowned organizations to local groups. They all work their hearts out, but they need help. Not just with funding, although funding would not go amiss.

How can you help? What these organizations need are people like you to adopt a dog into your hearts and homes and relieve the pressure on the organizations. Before you do, make sure that having a dog is right for you. If you have doubts, you may want to consider fostering a dog.

Whether you foster a dog or adopt a dog, you will be doing a great service to the community, to the city, to the organization that you adopt or foster from, to yourselves for the delight an adopted dog will bring, but most importantly to the dog whose life you have just saved.

Treat them right, train them to be obedient and you will not have any behavior problems, just a grateful, loyal dog.