Sounds like great advice for most people :) Thank you!!! I don’t need a puppy, a younger dog I wouldn’t mind. I just have one thing that concerns me about that. I have a toy fox terrier and a cat and a learning disabled child(adult body, child mind). I always felt getting a puppy is the best for the situation. They are then raised with all of this. If you get an older dog even if it’s a young one and they aren’t use to the new animals and daughter who might just give the dog a great big hug real fast. Don’t know how a dog would react to that.
It sound’s like you’re putting a lot of thought into it, so I’m sure you’ll end up with the best situation for your family!
If you would like to know about bringing an adult dog into a family, let me know via Freepmail and I will happily bore you with a long, rambling narrative of how I did it; either way, make sure you post pictures of your new pet when you get it! Some of us live for the pet picture threads. ;-)