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<blockquote data-quote="Critter Lover" data-source="post: 218049" data-attributes="member: 6297"><p>Sounds like your children are small so I would say that the burden of responsibility will be with you. Kids normally will start helping with animals.....if you are lucky when they are in their teens. I adopted my dogs for myself so I know they were my responsibility and never pushed them off on to anyone else in the family unless I was not home to let them out and ask a family member to do so. I feed them, I bath them, I vet them, I give them their Heartgard every month for their heartworm prevention, & I give them their Frontline Plus every month for their flea and tick prevention. Having a dog is like having another dependent that you can not claim on your taxes....LOL. I would also suggest when you get to the point that you are going to take on a dog to consider adopting NOT a puppy that you will have to housetrain but do adopt a rescue dog that is already housebroken. It saves a lot of stress on you cleaning and reprimanding a dog when the dog is already house broke and there are plenty of homeless dogs out there than need love. You can find them when they are less than 1 yr old. If your budget is tight then don't try to get a dog because they do get expensive with all the things I mentioned before such as the vet, heartgard, frontline plus and all the toys, bowls, leash, collar and some counties require you to have a pet license for them as well. Also some dogs need groomed periodically and that is another expense.</p><p> </p><p>I can say that my dogs have been good therapy for my son.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Critter Lover, post: 218049, member: 6297"] Sounds like your children are small so I would say that the burden of responsibility will be with you. Kids normally will start helping with animals.....if you are lucky when they are in their teens. I adopted my dogs for myself so I know they were my responsibility and never pushed them off on to anyone else in the family unless I was not home to let them out and ask a family member to do so. I feed them, I bath them, I vet them, I give them their Heartgard every month for their heartworm prevention, & I give them their Frontline Plus every month for their flea and tick prevention. Having a dog is like having another dependent that you can not claim on your taxes....LOL. I would also suggest when you get to the point that you are going to take on a dog to consider adopting NOT a puppy that you will have to housetrain but do adopt a rescue dog that is already housebroken. It saves a lot of stress on you cleaning and reprimanding a dog when the dog is already house broke and there are plenty of homeless dogs out there than need love. You can find them when they are less than 1 yr old. If your budget is tight then don't try to get a dog because they do get expensive with all the things I mentioned before such as the vet, heartgard, frontline plus and all the toys, bowls, leash, collar and some counties require you to have a pet license for them as well. Also some dogs need groomed periodically and that is another expense. I can say that my dogs have been good therapy for my son. [/QUOTE]
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