Any ideas would be much appreciated as I only have until September to organize a special day for her.
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Talk with your local animal shelter. They would probably love to have a volunteer come in and work with the animals for a day. It will show her the importance of volunteer work as well as let her spend time with the dogs. It may become something she wants to do more and more, and they could always use the help. Let her know that you can't take them all home though. Lol
Edit: Oops sounds like we all got the same idea at the same time.
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- Well, you could go volunteer with her at a rescue center. It'll be free, you get to hang around dogs, walk them, play with them and they'll really appriciate her being there because it's good for the dogs and you.
If you're having a party party with lots of kids, I'd just keep it to a party because too many kids around ANY dogs, not just rescue dogs, could be stressful for them.
I think you should throw a party with an adoption theme! Buy some little dog teddies of different types and have cheap collars with tags ready with the kids' names on, then give them the collars and let them 'adopt' a dog with an official certificate and everything. It'd be really sweet and I bet they'd have a blast! - how about contacting a local agility club to see if you and she could sit in on a club practice or competition?
you could tell them how much she loves dogs, and maybe someone has an older, trained dog that they would allow her to handle? 12 is not too young for a kid to put a dog through its paces for a little while, i let my 7 year old handle my dogs (under my close supervision!) for practice.
a lot of agility clubs have events monthly, and usually practice weekly. look on the internet for clubs near you! maybe when she gets older, she could get a rescue dog, and join the club! (with your help, Mom!) - to be honest im afraid she would probly enjoy it but its not enough just seeing a dog for a day, ask her wat her favorite dog is have her sow a picture of it on the internet, then YOU do some research on the dog. then what i would do is actualy get her a dog i think shed be able to take care of it as 12 is pretty mature enough to take care of it. so if u do decide to get it go the day of her birthday and say u forgot to buy something, u actualy go and get a doggy for her since its birthday shed be like what did u buy and ud say ur present a dog! happy birthday, but if u cant id let her spend time with some dogs and get her 2nd or 3rd favorite thing
- Fior my friends 12th birthday (or 11 i cant remember) she had a dog party and ebery1 invited there dogs and we went to the park and there was relays like we would run up and have to eat jello out of a bowl without our hands and do thing like that. It was rilly fun. Its a good idea. Come up with fun relays for everyone to do and you will all have a blast! hope this helped!
- I'm sure the local Humane Society would LOVE for her to come by for the day (week, or year) to take care of the dogs! Second option would be to call your vet and ask if she can shadow the vet. I'm not sure if they let someone that age do this but it wouldn't hurt to ask.
- I would just get her a dog for her birthday, that would be much better. The best breed for a beginning dog owner would be a lab or golden retriever with the proper training, I don't reccommend a small dog for your first dog, a great dane would be nice too.
- if she loves dogs as much as me she could help out at a shelter and help give them a bath or walk them or just spend the dsay with them i did that for a week and still want to but i live to far away to go everyday. hope i helped.
- A dog obstacle training course would be way cool, and perhaps your daughter could even partake. You should be able to find one close to you, either @Yellow Book.com, or just enter "dog obstacle course/(your zip here)" in your search engine...
- How about a painting or a print onto canvas of her dog??
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I had a print of my sons dog in Avatar Style, he loved it!
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Brian - some puppy plates and balloons and a cake with a puppy face on it
- As much as i love dogs if i was 12 i would be proper disappointed if my birthday present was to work somewhere. As much as i agree shelters need support, and it's important to learn about the welfare of dogs, they can be very upsetting places and you run the risk of setting her up for disappointment when she thinks she's gonna get to adopt one and that's not your intention.
A day at a training Centre would be quite cool though, learning about the dogs and training. Personally i think that would be the better option for a more 'fun' birthday as she could watch some show dogs in action.
However, anything you do with dogs i think would get her hopes highly up that you're gonna buy her a dog and end up over all an upset. I don't know, that's just how i think i would feel at 12 if my parents did that to me, but i don't know your situation. - Take her to the pet store (which mostly has dogs) and then maybe you can buy her one as a birthday gift,
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