Dog Adoptions 101 in NJ

We’ve all seen stray dogs roaming the street in NJ looking scared, hungry, and frazzled. It breaks your heart. It always makes me wonder how they ended up like that in the first place. Some slightly luckier strays might end up in NJ shelters or getting rescued by a compassionate person. Not all dogs end up in NJ shelters because they were necessarily bad or had behavioral problems. A lot of them end up in NJ shelters because people buy dogs without considering the effort and expense of having a dog. Some end up there because the owner passes away or goes into a nursing home. Some are also either given up or simply dropped off because of divorces and neither person wants or can take care of the dog by themselves. But then there are many dogs who end up discarded because they were used by breeders or puppy mills as sort of breeding machines, then when they no longer serve that purpose they are given up. NJ rescue dogs that have been neglected or abandoned need training and a gentle hand to be a good member of your household. However, they will most likely need less training than [...]

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