Should I buy a dog here or in england?

MeShell...What kind of dog is Jess? She's beautiful!

English Cocker Spaniel
and she is a big baby........I love her to death

aw I love all the doggie photos...If I hadn't got Jess I would have like a cairns or maybe a yorkie...

Ahh, I want a dog soo bad! Yesterday I walked quickly to catch up with a woman that I had seen the week prior....she was walking her beautiful Old English Sheepdog. I couldn't resist, I had to go up and chat with her. And yes, I know over here...I don't normally go up to strangers to have a chat!

The dog (Abbey) was soo sweet and friendly....she even let me give her a big bear hug!  I want one!!

Honestly... you couldnt guess how many times i tried posting that!

Anyway... to the original poster... part of the point of these doggie pics is that Rescue Dogs rock!!

Rescue animals of any species rock!  When you rescue, you are quite possibly saving 2 lives--the animal you adopt as well as opening up a spot in a shelter/rescue for another animal in need. 

I am a small-animal foster (guinea pigs, rabbits, hamsters, gerbils) and own only animals who have lost at least one home.  I rescued my cat myself, when she became homeless and her life was threatened by a mean teenaged boy in the neighborhood.  I currently have 4 guinea pigs in foster who were supposed to have received heartsticks on 9/11 last year.  Rescued animals do indeed rock, and you can probably find just about any species you'd like in a rescue/shelter. 

All of the dogs are beautiful, little miss Sophie looks like a sassy little sod and Davie, well, so beautiful - I have a special place in my heart for Greyhounds and particularly rescued ex-racers.

As, some of you might know, I lost my own beloved Basenji two years ago and I have wowed never to have another dog again (I simply can't take it, I lost my beloved little soulmate dog), but I have been involved in animal welfare & rescue in some form for my whole life, as has my family.........so it's wonderful to see such happy rescues and I hope the OP considers this path - it will never be regretted.

Thanks guys, brought a special smile to myself during a very trying week.......which is what dogs do best.........appear in your life when your heart needs them.

just want to add that i too wholeheartedly support adopting a pound dog.

if i had the space and money to care for them, i'd hightail it to the nearest shelter & ask for the next three (four...five...) dogs about to be put down.

My first pound rescue was a day away from being put down.  I swear he knew his time was almost up.  He was the most dedicated, loving dog I've ever owned. 

I had looked around for possible rescue organizations or shelters in Sweden when I first decided to get a dog and they are few and far between.  I would like to think it's because people here tend to take more responsibility for their dog's fertility, but you NEVER see dogs or dog packs running around neighborhoods.  There are mixed breed dogs, but they seem to be intentionally so, and they are sold as well, not dumped.  Even a mixed breed dog costs a quite impressive amount of money here, 150-300 GBP.  There is a group that will bring rescue dogs from Spain, but when I checked with them, they only had large dogs and living in a one-bedroom flat, we were looking for a smaller dog, so we have our Sophie, SKK registration and all, but all my previous dogs were definitely rescue mutts and wonderful.

Buy a dog in the U.K.  it cost me about $4,000.00 to fly and go through the PETS scheme with my two golden retreivers.  Would do it again for them but if I didn't have them yet I would have waited.

Also, returning to the states is very easy and they do NOT need to be part of the PETS scheme.  In fact, from the U.K. they don't even need a rabbies cert because the U.K. is 'rabbies free.'