Your first step is to consider how much you can afford to spend. You need to consider the cost of the supplies needed, the first vet visit, whether or not the dog will be fixed, how much the first doses of medication will cost, if the dog has all of her shots and how much the adoption itself will cost.
The world was shocked and sickened on April 20, 1991, when crazed students Dylan Klebold, 17, and Eric Harris, 18, slaughtered 12 students and one teacher at Colorado's Columbine High School. Dylan was remembered as a Cub Scout who attended church with his family. Eric played Little League baseball and once rescued a neighbor's lost puppy.
How any individual comes to kill is a complex combination of circumstances, and it is almost impossible to know exactly why for any given act of violence. We will never really know the full answer to why for the murders at Columbine. Yet this should not stop us from trying to understand and prevent violence. We know that not all humans kill.