Looking for a specific type of dog to adopt

R Q

R Q

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Wife has been wanting another and I'm finally ok with it now. BUT it has to meet certain criteria.
It HAS to be cat friendly
Her last dog was a great Golden Retriever and is a tough act to follow
New dog must be a Golden-type dog with sweet temperament, easy to live with, good manners, and without bad traits.
We don't want a small dog but also not a giant so 35-65 lbs range.
It needs to be young but not a new puppy.
It will be inside and out. We have 10,000 square foot fenced back yard but it will sleep in house and be a family dog.
All that said, if you know of a dog in a circumstance that is needing a great new home, please pass it along to me.
Thanks.
 
Go to a local shelter. Rescue the dog. As you become attached to your new friend.
Wonder why you didn't do it sooner. BOOM.
Will post pics of my kiddos in a bit.
 
Paul said:
Go to a local shelter. Rescue the dog. As you become attached to your new friend.
Wonder why you didn't do it sooner. BOOM.
Will post pics of my kiddos in a bit.
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I have searched the shelters. They can't verify cat friendly. Most are Pits and I would be fine with that if I only knew it won't trrrorize or kill our cats. They're family too and I don't want to start a war.
 
My wife's pit mix (60lb) lives to play with cats.. in the manner you do not wish. My black lab chow(95lb) is the same way but too slow to catch them. HTH. The pit is super lovey to people though. Just doesn't like competition for attention. She shoves my dog out of the way to steal his attention.
 
Two pretty good shelter pooches, right there. I second finding a dog at the shelter. I do have a good friend looking to rehome few dogs. I know that none of them are golden.
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I'm normally very pro rescue, but for the things you need from a dog, I'm going to say you need to go with a puppy. It's more work, but conditioning for Cat Freindly is going to require an early start...
 
Go to petfinder.com. All the dogs are shelter or rescue dogs. And It has a search bar to narrow down all your criteria. That's where we found our dog. It was so much easier than trying to search all the shelters individually.
 
I have always had some type of bulldog i.e. Pits, American Bulldog, and now Olde English Bulldog. I am not a cat person and none of my dogs have ever been cat friendly at all. I don't like the taste of cat myself but my bulldogs must. Good luck finding a perfect fit in a new family member.
 
The guy on my shoulder in my a avatar is/was a shelter dog. He'd been in a couple scraps while In the big house. He's a big baby. He's 4 years old, and the paper work we got said he might not tolerate a cat. As it turns out, cat is an interesting thing to check out, then he just wants to be friends. CAT is an asshole and wants no part of it. Other than that. They're fine. Shelter dogs rock !
 
Look on CL, sometimes you can find a "shelter situation" where somebody has one that needs a home for whatever reason. You can find out from them what it's demeanor with cats is.
 
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