Shelter Vs. Breeder When Getting a Puppy Dog - as part of the expert series by GeoBeats.

Some of the pros and cons of getting a dog from a breeder or from the shelter, really depend on your basic goals and needs for your dog. If you have a young family, when you look at what you are going to be bringing home, you want to have a higher level of goals for importance of how this dog may be temperament wise around small children. So anytime we come from a rescue environment we have an older dog that we may not have as clear a history on as a dog that we started with as a puppy.