Featured adoptable dog- Festus - from Almost Home Rescue
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While I don't believe in giving dogs as gifts, especially during the holiday season, rescue dogs still need rescuing all year round. This blog is happy to feature dogs that may need a little extra exposure in order to find their person.
Meet Festus, a senoir Collie mix
Senior dogs like Festus, break the heart of any animal lover. Start the adoption process now and you can have Festus home in time for Festivus! Please accept apologies for bad joke. Couldn't help it!
Read more about Festus on the Almost Home Pet finder page here.
Top Ten Reasons to Adopt an Older Dog*
from the Senoir Dogs Project
Housetrained
1. Older dogs are housetrained. You won't have to go through the difficult stage(s) of teaching a puppy house manners and mopping/cleaning up after accidents.
Won't chew inappropriate items
2. Older dogs are not teething puppies, and won't chew your shoes and furniture while growing up.
Focus to learn
3. Older dogs can focus well because they've mellowed. Therefore, they learn quickly.
Knows what no means
4. Older dogs have learned what "no" means. If they hadn't learned it, they wouldn't have gotten to be "older" dogs.
Settle in with the "pack"
5. Older dogs settle in easily, because they've learned what it takes to get along with others and become part of a pack.
Good at giving love
6. Older dogs are good at giving love, once they get into their new, loving home. They are grateful for the second chance they've been given.
WYSIWYG
7. What You See Is What You Get: Unlike puppies, older dogs have grown into their shape and personality. Puppies can grow up to be quite different from what they seemed at first.
Instant companions
8. Older dogs are instant companions -- ready for hiking, car trips, and other things you like to do.
Time for yourself
9. Older dogs leave you time for yourself, because they don't make the kinds of demands on your time and attention that puppies and young dogs do.
A good night's sleep
10. Older dogs let you get a good night's sleep because they're accustomed to human schedules and don't generally need nighttime feedings, comforting, or bathroom breaks.
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As a member of Almost Home Rescue, and a fan of Festus, I want to thank you for featuring this beautiful, gentle dog. Many of us in AHR would love to give Festus a "forever" home, but it would prevent us from having room at home to rescue another dog in crisis. Festus' life is a real testament to courage, perserverance and hope. He has emerged from a lifetime of shelter life with dignity, a loving heart, and a mellow temperment.
Posted by
April WhiteDecember 19, 2006 11:02 AM
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