To keep a long story short, my fiancé and I would love to adopt a dog but originally agreed that right now is not a good time for us, due to the fact that we are gone at work from about 8am/5pm daily. We are in an apartment so we do not have a backyard. We felt that it would be unfair to adopt a dog knowing that it would only get to be outside for a little while in the evenings, and only ever on a leash in our complex. We cannot afford to take them to a doggy daycare daily. Maybe only once or twice a week.
Over thanksgiving, we dipped our toes in the water by participating in a "holiday sleepover"/temporary fostering situation where we brought a dog home with us for 3 days while the shelter was closed for the holidays. We absolutely fell in love with him. It was so hard to take him back but we still felt it would be unfair to him given the circumstances.
He had been in the shelter for 2 months at that point, and we fostered him about 2 months ago. We follow the shelter's page and he has still not been adopted.
We are going to have a conversation tonight about the logistics of adopting him, but if he is still there after our wedding next month, I would love to go back and adopt him. That would put him at 5 months in the shelter. We will look into options such as dog training (he does not like other dogs) so that we can take him out with us and hopefully get him comfortable to go to a dog park on the weekends and get him off a leash to run free. He is 2 years old, a pit mix.
I am so conflicted. Please be honest, Would it be unfair for this dog if we adopted him knowing that he will have to be home alone for 9 hours/day and not get to run and play as often as he'd like?
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