Question by Tinaaaa™: How long did you search on Petfinder.com before you found the right dog/gave up?
Me, still looking, no luck. were you looking for a specific breed?
Even if you didn’t get your dog from petfinder, how long did it take you to find it and what source did you get it from? 
i’d love to be able to take in ANY dog but my dad and brother needs a hypoallergenic dog. like my cairn terrier.
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Answer by RoxasSora321
I gave up a while ago and started looking for breeders, I found one today and I will get the new dog tomorrow.
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We’ve been looking for the past couple months. I didn’t care about the breed, but my husband wanted another poodle, so we found one we are adopting on Saturday. He is in a Rescue that’s about four hours away. I didn’t care if it was a purebred or mutt.
Maybe you need to expand your search horizons and/or not be so specific about a particular breed. They are going to be spayed or neutered, so it really doesn’t matter if you have a purebred or a mutt from a shelter. Being as these dogs will not be bred, it doesn’t matter if they have flaws.
My dog I have now was given to us by a breeder we knew when we moved back up to ND. We were living in NC. She’s a 2 yr old Toy Poodle. My first dog we found abandoned. My second dog came from a shelter. My third one was a puppy mill mama that was rescued by the guy that gave her to us.
Edit: Maybe you need to travel a couple hundred miles to a shelter to find a Cairn Terrier.
Or google Cairn Terrier Rescues in your area. Many breed specific rescues are not listed on petfinder.com
Well it kinda depends on how hard im looking. I found a ton of results and some great dogs but you can find a flaw in all of them it just matters on how much you want a dog.
Adopt a poodle then. Not a cross most poodle crosses are given up because they have the coat of the other parent and do shed.
Started with petfinder when I was looking for a dog/pup in general 2 1/2 years ago. Then I started on a specific breed. For now I am going with a breeder but the next of the similar breed will be from one of the rescues that uses petfinder.