Will you want it all its life?

Will he be of all-important, like family and wife?

Will you handle him with gentleness, even when you’re in a mood?

And see his water’s always fresh and that he’s got good food?

Will you train him kindly and brush him every day?

And provide whim with a clean dry bed, where he can always lay?

Will you teach your children that they too must be kind?

And that if he takes their toys, they mustn’t mind?

Will you train him on a lead, to sit and walk and heel?

Not drag him on a choke chain with all the pain to feel.

Will you teach obedience, to come when he’s afar,

To lay and stay if needed and to be good in the car?

And when he’s learned these lessons and loves you all so true,

Will you thank the day this puppy came to live with you?

And when he’s old and feeble and life has passed by,

Your family broken hearted and not an eye is dry,

Will you still be happy, even through the pain

And remember the good times, and start it all again?

If you can answer YES my friend, to all that I have said

Then you deserve a puppy, the best one ever bred.

BUT if you read my questions and cannot answer true,

Please don’t have a puppy.  It’s not fair on him or you.