Any animal already born needs a home whether he's from a shelter or a kennel.
Unless, of course, it is a deaf Dalmatian - then it should destroyed.
Lectures
The Damnatian Club of America:
Responsible breeders NEVER knowingly sell, place or give away deaf pups to pet homes. Deaf pups should ALWAYS be humanely destroyed by a veterinarian.
The Dalmatian Club of America Board of Governors feels very strongly that deaf pups should NEVER be sold, placed or given away, and most certainly should not be bred from. Deaf Dalmatians are hard to raise, difficult to control (they are often hit by cars when they "escape") and often become snappish or overly aggressive, especially when startled.
Our local Dalmatian Rescue of Delaware was offically black-balled by the national organization for allow folks like us to adopt critters like Fletcher.
Fletcher has been a delight to raise;,he is difficult to control because he is willful, not because he is deaf; responsible owners should always try to avoid having their animals play in traffic - deaf or not; he wouldn't even snap when he has been snapped at; and, his startle reflex is to kiss! When we take him for walks on the boarwalk, he regularly has youngsters come up behind him and pat him- he just turns around to see what new friend he is meeting. When I shake his haunch to wake him up, he licks my hand before he even opens his eyes. He has learned to take cues from the other dogs behavior - when one of our cars enters the drive, Fletcher is the first at the window to greet the driver. (There is obviously a distict "posture" the other dogs take, because he ignores them when they bark at the mail truck, or someone walking a dog, but he leaps up when they bark at Woody arriving home.)
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