Hey everyone, welcome to the Foundation's podcast.

I'm your host, Tony Peterson.

Today's episode is all about the very earliest stages of planning on getting a new little pupster.

A lot of folks decide they're going to get a spring puppy.

And then they start looking for one about six seconds before they actually want to pick one up.

Look, that's one way to do it.

But a better way is to start months ahead of time, or hell, years ahead of time if you need to,

in order to not only decide on what you're going to get, but when and why.

We often don't give this stage of the process a whole lot of

love, but it's important, and it gives us a chance, at least academically, to flesh out what the

best choice in dog breed really is for us. And that's what I'm going to talk about right freaking now.

Back when my little girls were five, my wife said we should take them to Disney World.

I was about as excited to do that as I would be if she said she wanted to hook a car battery up to my

delicates just to see how much electricity I could handle.

Somehow, and I don't really know how,

we ended up going to Disney World anyway, just like she wanted to. And you know what? It was awesome.

I expected to trudge along and pay for $75 chicken strip baskets every day, but it was honestly so much fun.

My daughters were at an age where

the Disney World thing was truly magical to them. The princesses were real, instead of just

dressed up college girls trying to avoid creepy middle-aged dudes, which is a wild rabbit hole to go

down if you ever read about it. The rides and the shows were all amazing to my

daughters, and that made it so much fun. Despite the fact that not only is Disney the most magical

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