When I picked Lacey at the shelter she was mostly black, her face was almost all black then. She had been there one month and was 10 weeks old. Would she have got adopted? When I went last Dec. I went after a black lab mix puppy, 4 mo. old. Ended up with Jake, and of course at that time he was mostly black. I swear before I die I will adopt another one of those big black shelter dogs. I love them, don't know why people dislike them. Same with cats, although neither of my cats are black, black cats are my favorite.