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Having a dog comes with many responsibilities. The most important reason for limitation imposed on dogs by many countries and states in America is because of irresponsibility of dog owners.

People get dogs for all the wrong reasons which they regretted at the end. Owning a dog is not supposed to become troublesome, which is why it is essential that if you want to own a dog, do it for the correct reason before getting one.

You should not get a dog for:

1. Protection

The wrong conception for people who have this motive in owning a dog, is that the dog will automatically be protective for their family which absolutely will not come true. Incorrect method of training like keeping the dog away and not socializing them correctly with people for trying to make them to be protective could change the dog to be afraid and wary of strangers. Instead of protecting the dog owner, when face with certain critical situation, this dog would most likely run for life.

Worse still some owners, encourage the dog to be aggressive and bark by tying him in a certain vicinity and training him to have the territorial aggressiveness. This is welcoming for lawsuits to come knocking on your door. Thousands of children and people had been hurt all over the world just because some children often found wandering within the territorial supposed to be protected by your dog.

If your intention for getting a dog, is for protection, then a better way is to get those electronic alarm devices that can sound like vicious barking which can be activated by motion detectors. This would definitely much more effective than getting a dog.

2. To accompany your children

A lot of children often pester their parents for a dog, just for a reason of cuteness or fun to play with. Normally this comes with a promise of taking good care of the dog well being and cleaning up the messes they will create. Well this is absolutely a very terrible choice to be made. Because the effect of cuteness and fun to play with will fade away after days or weeks, and now the dog will be left with no care.

Typically this responsibility is automatically shift to the busy mom who does not have the proper time to train the dog and such the dog would acquire bad habits which would not be tolerated by the busy home makers. This is probably why there are so many dogs end up in the shelter and some on the streets. If you are not ready to train the dog to be a good member of the family, then give stuffed toys to your children instead of getting

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