[KathieI]

To all those posters who are recommending we adopt rescue dogs even those organizations that claim to have pure breds,,, I'm sorry, I would love to but I have such severe allergies to almost all dogs except those that don't shed and I once rescued from a Schnauzer rescue and apparently the pup was not pure bred and I developed a severe allergy attack and had to give him up. That totally broke my heart more than anything, I cried for days. It was so hard to love him for a few short weeks and give our hearts to each other and then have to give him up. I will not put myself or another wonderful doggie through that again so I have to go to full bred breeds because of health reasons (and emotional also). But I thank you for your suggestions.