Originally posted by: Calculator83
mmmmmmmmmmmm... OMG this seems to be harder than building my first computer...
It's is, a pet is a variable entity.....a PC is static.
Originally posted by: Calculator83
1. How much is yearly bill assuming this dog already has shots?
No way to answer really....what are you including in the yearly 'bill'..if just the vet and tags you'd just call you local tag office and the veternarian you'd use. PetSmart usually has cheap shots just for this purpose.
Originally posted by: Calculator83
2. No one answered potty train question?
You should be able to train a dog not to go inside the house within a month. I trained my dog within a week. I never trained it to use only one place though as I was in an apartment at the time and would walk it different places.
Originally posted by: Calculator83
3. How do I tell if the dog is well behaved at the pound?
watch it and then play with it a bit. Once it's older I would take it to a puppy park to socialize.
Originally posted by: Calculator83
4. If I'd get 2 dogs, Do they have to be the same ones, or are types incompatible, as in computer ram.
They could be two different animals even. However; some dogs tend to be more animal agressive as a whole, namely the terrier breeds. Every dog is different.
Originally posted by: Calculator83
5. How much SHOULD I spend?
That is up to you. Money on a pet doesn't buy a better pet or even quality. Money on a pet buys a bloodline that is really useful in only breeding and bragging rights. I know people that were paid to take an animal and those that dropped $10k on a dog.
Originally posted by: Calculator83
6. Are dogs alright with electronics, I have many and I'd notice high pitch noises sometimes from them, will dogs go crazy over this?
A pet should be fine unless you have a specific noise emitter. Dogs hear at different wavelengths than people (their ranges go higher).
Originally posted by: Calculator83
7. Fixing dogs. Does this have to be done? I just cannot wrap my mind around it because I think of another life, and If it had happen to me OMG, idk, I can't contemplate doing this to a dog.
First, dogs and other non-humans don't behave the same way as humans do to treatments and training. A dog senses pain way differently than a person and tends to ignore it if it's not life threatening...a person will stub a toe and cry about it to everyone for days.
Fixing a dog doesn't change the dog really at all. It lowers it's aggression a lot and takes it's need to procreate out of the picture and the 'bad' behaviors that go with it. A female dog in heat is messy to have as well.
Fixing a pet is indeed an additional cost. When I had my three cats done it was close to $700 for the neuters, the declaws, and the testing/shots. Even a declawed cat will do it's clawing motions on furniture. It makes no sense to let a cat keep it's claws if one is going to beat it for maintaining them.