Choosing a puppy: Follow your heart or your head?

When deciding to look at a litter of newborn puppies, you should also look at the parents. Photos: dpa

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It's a story heard over and over again: “He chose me.” Then follows a gushing account about how the cute tiny puppy clumsily stumbled its way to its future mummy or daddy, immediately wanted to play a game, or fell asleep in their lap. So, so heart-warming, such fateful encounters.