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You’ve made the decision to adopt your next pet, and you’ve located a nearby shelter. Now what?

You’ll need to choose a companion for up to the next 15 to twenty years from up to several hundred pets, all vying for the chance to come home with you. If the shelter you’ve chosen is of the busy, open admission variety, you’ll also be likely to end up making this choice while surrounded by dozens of other chattering families hoping to adopt, and in an environment where it’s difficult to evaluate an animal’s true personality due to stress and noise.

So, what’s a family to do, faced with making a lifetime committment to a new pet in this situation? One way to maximize the chance of bringing home just the right fit is to find a friendly shelter employee and ask a few questions about each pet on your “short list” of potential new family members.

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Many people seeking a new pet bypass the adoption option for one reason or another. While there are certainly some situations in which purchasing from a reputable, responsible breeder is ideal, consider this list of five myths about pet adoption before bypassing rescue to look for a breeder.

1. Shelter dogs are all mutts.

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