I am thinking of heading to the animal shelter this weekend?
Oh yeah?  You looking for a pet?  It is so much better to get pets there because it rescues an abandoned animal from a terrible fate.
I am thinking of getting a rescue dog.
Animal shelter
An animal shelter or pound is a place where stray, lost, abandoned or surrendered animals, mostly dogs and cats, and sometimes sick or wounded wildlife are kept and rehabilitated. While no-kill shelters exist, it is sometimes policy to euthanize sick animals, and any animal that is not claimed quickly enough by a previous or new owner. In Europe, of 30 countries included in a survey, all but four (Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, and Italy) permitted the killing of healthy stray
timber wolf as the state animal. In 2013, Colorado listed rescue dogs and cats as the state pet. California also recently named the "shelter pet" as its state animal, because of all the abandoned shelter pets each year. California legislature hopes this will cause more adoptions of pets from shelters.
State dog breeds.
State dog breeds Proposed dog breeds.
The table below shows the dog breeds which have been proposed to each state's relevant State Senate or House of Representatives, but either were not accepted as