Getting a new dog

teachergirl

I had two rescue cavaliers. I lost zara just before Christmas last year and my little jazz in July this year. I was certain I didn't want another dog. However there was just a huge dog shaped hole in my life. I joined all the facebook pages of the local rescues and spent my evenings looking at the dogs looking for their forever homes. Then 5 weeks ago I spotted a dog that noone could possibly want, he was elderly , half starved, deaf, with a heart murmer, needing all his teeth out and with a weeing problem and I just knew he would be coming home with me.:o
I am fostering him for my local rescue he is as different from my girls as you could possibly get. progress is slow but we are making progress, when he cuddles his bony little body up to me at night I know we have made a difference to him. Now I wouldn't swop him for the world.

it is different for everyone. Why don't you try the local rescue centres. You can usually walk them and give them back. Then one day ,you might just decide taht you want to take one home;)

elsien

I waited a year. It would have been sooner because the house felt so empty but personal circumstances dictated otherwise.

Having said that, although I now have gitdog and the dog shaped hole in my life has vanished, I do still look at him sometimes and think "but you're not mutt." So even though I hated not having a dog in the house, in hindsight I think if I'd had another dog sooner I maybe would have found it too hard to adjust to it being a different dog to the one I lost. I needed more time to grieve, wherees I know other people find it better to start looking sooner rather than later.
There isn't a right or wrong, it's whatever is best for you.