Best place to buy a family fully trained dog?

[LindyLaLa]

Hi, can anyone recommend where we can buy a fully trained family dog from in the South uk? Ideally a year plus, rescue centres don't really have any suitable for a busy household with young kids. Seen a couple of sites but hard to know who you're buying from! We also need to consider the breed as one of our children have eczema, controlled asthma so would like to find someone who knows all about the breeds suitable etc. Thanks

Exactly. Hence the OP doesn't deserve one if they can't even be arsed to train it. They should get this...

Bless that did make me laugh. 😍 Dogs like the ones you want are extremely rare and often snapped up by pensioners in rescue centres.

Blast from a pas. K9 is also hairless. A boon!

From the past rather. Typed too fast.

I disagree with those saying get a stuffed toy.

I think you should get a dog robot!! Have you seen them?! Some of them are ACTUALLY artificially intelligent...amazing.

But please god don't get a real one.

There are loads of places that sell trained dogs.

Not a route I would take but it is a business model that does exist.

They breed and train the dogs and then you have a period of time to learn how to use the training going into the future.

Lead walking basic commands etc will all have been introduced to the dog and the new owners will have sessions on how to carry them out.

WKDS has been mentioned but also old threads will show how it didnt work out for some Mn in the past.

Not something I would ever do as the training part if the fun bit but it does exist.

Lol same place you get fully trained, obedient kids

We got our dog from an animal rescue charity and he was fully house trained which I hadn't expected. Someone had gotten him during the first lockdown and then when life went back to normal having a dog was too inconvenient for them. Apparently lots of dogs being abandoned with similar stories needing good homes. However he now bosses us all around and rules the house 🤣🤣🤣

Please don’t get a dog 😏

Dogs are brilliant pets but you do need to put the work in, even if you find the ideal breed/temperament. If you are too busy to train one, you are too busy for a dog in general as other people have said.

Most people trying to sell adult dogs are going to be dodgy anyhow. It is lazy buyers that keep the dodgy breeders selling/in business. Please don't add to the problem.

I've had five dogs over the past 20 yrs. all the training was years in the making and putting in a huge amount of time and effort along the way. A year old dog is not the finished article.

Unless you want a working dog or a protection dog I don't think you will have much luck. Also the bit about allergies just makes this situation even more silly.

What is the reason for wanting to get a fully trained dog @LindyLaLa?
And have you had dogs before (ie are you trained)?

Exactly. What an awful idea that you would just pick a random fully trained dog off the shelf like a handbag. Think you've got the picture though now OP.

First reply has absolutely nailed it. Do not get a dog @LindyLaLa

Ate you ACTUALLY kidding? DO NOT GET A DOG! The poor thing will be in a rescue centre within 6 months! If you haven't got time to train it yourselves, you haven't got time for a dog and there's absolutely no such thing as an allergy free breed, despite what breeders will tell you!

I have seen trained dogs advertised on pets for homes usually a couple of thousand above the normal price.

this is a joke right? If not this is one of the stupidest and ignorant posts I have ever seen on MN. You can’t by a trained dog that will just slot into your family and lifestyle. Have a word with yourself!

Wow you can’t even be bothered to do your own research into which breeds are most suitable for people with allergies, let alone train your own puppy.
You shouldn’t get a dog, you don’t seem very interested in them.

And strange to relate, OP has run away, and who can blame her? Piling onto someone with no dog experience will not make them inclined to come back here for advice again.

Personally, I wouldn't look to get a trained dog as I actually enjoy training my own, but I know a family who found themselves a failed gundog who has fitted in with them perfectly. Yes, you need to build a bond with the dog and yes, you need to learn the commands that the dog recognises and yes, you need to be consistent - but clearly this CAN work, otherwise guide dogs wouldn't be a thing.

I also know people who have sent dogs to board and train: someone I know had no choice when she had a young dog and needed a major operation. Seems to have worked out well for both of them.

You can also have the time to commit to walking a dog and spending some time with it, but not necessarily the time to train a puppy - a really active puppy can dominate your life for months.

Someone above said it perfectly - if you don’t have time to train a dog, you don’t have time for a dog. No matter how well trained they revert quickly. A trained dog is likely to need retraining with a new owner.

It's not a commodity. A dog is a sentient animal. You are not approaching dog ownership in a way any reputable breeder/rescue would consider appropriate.

I don't know why everyone is piling on you as if you don't deserve a dog because you would like one part trained, dog training isn't some secret karate kid montage you need to undertake in order to be a good pet owner, reeks of nasty attitudes.

You'd be better off buying a puppy and sending it for several "board and trains", but this is very expensive and requires repeat trips back to the trainers, they'll keep it for 30 days at a time and go over basics with the dog, then they go back every 6 months if needed to brush up on their training.

If your children have allergies you'd be looking at hypoallergenic breeds, but it's not guaranteed each individual dog of the hypoallergenic breeds won't cause allergies.
I think its quite sensible to want a trained puppy if you have no idea what you're doing, there are far too many people who think they can train their own dog and fail. If you have the money, board and train is what you should do.

@Icannever NOT reputable. 25 bitches and 13 dogs in their breeding programme. Commercial dog breeders.

Or, if you don't have the time to train one, you could just not get a dog. It's not a basic human right.

If you do have time then work with a trainer so you both learn together. A dog is not a toy.

Do you think they do husbands too?