 Go to the shelter, visit. Don't take a dog home that day. Go home and research the breeds that are involved in that dog. See if that dog might be compatible for you and your lifestyle. If you like to watch 20 hours of TV, adopt an old dog. Don't adopt a puppy. We have a dog that we see frequently here at the hay farm that come from a shelter. He was a, I don't know, four-month-old English Lab adopted to people in their 80s.