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Vet-Recommended Dog Adoption Questions: 6 to Ask

Before you adopt a dog, it's important to make sure you're ready for the responsibility and to find the right dog for you.

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Have any behavioral evaluations been done?

To get along with a dog, you need to know about its personality and how it acts. In order to help, shelters often use formal behaviour assessments.

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Before you adopt a dog, ask the shelter how it acts around kids, strangers, and other dogs to find out if it needs more training.

Has this dog been around children?

Before you adopt a dog, you should find out about its medical history, including its vaccinations, allergies, and whether or not it has been neutered or spayed.

What is their medical history?

If you want to adopt a dog, you should find out if it has been in foster care. You can learn a lot about the dog from his or her former foster parents.

Has this dog been to a foster home?

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What was the dog's home life before?

Knowing a dog's backstory is important when adopting from a shelter. It can change how they act in certain situations

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Have they received any training?

A benefit of adopting an older dog is that it might have already been trained. But you still have to be willing to train, or it might not be a good fit.

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