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.
Since then, the Columbine High School massacre has been remembered as one of the most infamous school shootings in U.S. history, and it has even been blamed for inspiring more recent shootings at other schools. Still, as infamous as it was, Columbine wasn't the first, or the deadliest, school shooting in America. On April 20, 1999, Harris and Klebold opened fire inside their high school near Denver. They also planted bombs, although the explosives never detonated. All in all, they killed 12 students, one teacher, and themselves, and they wounded 21 others.