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Picking the Right Puppy

Score the perfect puppy with research and reflection.

Denise Flaim

At 6 a.m., most of us are cupping our hands around a steaming mug of coffee, the very definition of “bleary eyed.”
But out on her six-plus acres in Columbia, N.J., Laurie Bowen is tossing Frisbees.

Crack-of-dawn disc-tossing isn’t just the way Bowen starts her day. It’s the way she continues and eventually ends it, taking as many as 20 breaks from her stay-at-home job to send the Frisbee flying — all at the behest of her three Border Collies.

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good article thanks
janet, bethlehem, PA
Posted: 6/8/2009 8:19:34 AM
Nice article
Sheryl, Bloomington, IN
Posted: 8/22/2008 11:23:58 AM
This helped me a lot when I was getting a new dog! Good article.
Tracie, Madison, WI
Posted: 8/4/2008 7:14:40 PM
I'll like to get a puppy a trained sweet one so me and my mom can have fun. and a potty trained one but it has to be a Golden Retriever. if my mom says yes i will post you back. oh and my street is called East Dakota house number is 1715
destiny, nampa, ID
Posted: 1/6/2008 11:53:03 AM
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