We passed all the adoption tests for the little dog we liked. We are getting him next week.
We have absolutely no dog equipment at all. So this week we shopped. In our little town, there is nothing. But on eBay and Amazon, they have stuff. So, I have ordered and all this week we have been having deliveries.
A harness.
A soft travel crate.
A raincoat.
A toy.
A jumper.
Blankets.
n’ Stuff.
So now they KNOW we have a dog and are sending us offers for the very same things we have just bought. I can never figure that out. Why the same item, different make? Or sometimes the same item in a different colour.
Do they know something we don’t? If our new dog is a chewer and an escape artist, will we have to buy the same stuff all over again in a month?
Our dog is five years old, not a rescue dog, but a re-homing from a divorce. I think he will behave perfectly.
Well, I’m hoping so!
The Last Furlong 
Oct 20, 2018 at 17:57
I find this all rather insulting. Sorry about that, I suppose that they mean well. But no dog in my opinion has a right to expect a golden life. No human child gets this.
Sorry, a bit cross about this.
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Oct 20, 2018 at 18:39
That’s a very good point! The minute anything gets into the institutions you have to “pass the tests”. Adopting a baby is a nightmare, evidently. I think with dogs, they don’t want people getting one and then dumping it again. You have to be committed. There are TONS of dogs and cats out there. Maybe some are just luckier than others. I don’t look at it as a right to a golden life, just that people charged with looking after animals are seeing they end up in homes where the owners and animals can be happy…
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Oct 21, 2018 at 14:21
Our rescue dog has simple requirements – a bowl for water, a bowl for food, any couch or chair to lie on and any bed [occupied or otherwise] to sleep on. She used to slip out of her collar so I bought a body harness. She slips out of that too, though I don’t know how she does it.
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Oct 21, 2018 at 14:38
Our Bobby-the-now-dead-dog, did the slipping out thing when he was a younger dog. We learned to clip the collar to the harness too. Slipping out is very disconcerting at the river, the ocean, main road, or a nearby ferocious dog!
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