Rant!!!!

[Freedom]

The harsh realities of rescue work.

They don't want to be mean, but they have to allocate their resoureces as best they can. It is like a 'no kill" shelter realizing they can't take in anymore for a few weeks until they complete some adoptions. Fair? NO WAY. Forced by the overwhelming numbers.

[cyber-sibes]

I think of black & white as the classically beautiful border collie. Maybe people just want the "new" model? I think Shelties have the same problem - everybody wants a merle. I'd never even seen merles till a few years ago!
Makes me crazy with my breed too - some people are obsessed about wanting blue-eyed huskies, like having brown eyes makes them a less desirable husky. It's always a key point with advertisers who are in it for the buck -- "We breed for BLUE-eyed husky puppies.", when they should breed for "great confirmation & temperment".

[pitc9]

That is sad!
The breed is the same no matter what color they are.

[cali]

the rescues are taking merles over a black and white? thats very odd, most rescues have a h*ll of a time trying to place merle BCs, black and whites are WAAYYY easier to adopt out then a merle...

[*LabLoverKEB*]

That's just awful! Kinda like how a lot of black dogs don't very often get adopted! How horrible.


DJFyrewolf- I would snatch up that beautiful Dobe in a hearbeat! I LOVE Dobies- any color!

[Tollers-n-Dobes]

That's strange, and you're right, not at all fair. I'd tend to think that blk/white would be more wanted and adopted out quicker, but reds are definitely getting to be more popular I've noticed. Colour popularity shouldn't matter though. I personally prefer reds and sables, but that doesn't mean I'm going to choose a dog based on colour if I wanted to adopt a BC. Are you sure they're purposely pulling reds and merles? Maybe lately the blacks just don't have nice enough temperaments or something?

[Twisterdog]

It is unfair and sad, no doubt.

However, it all comes down to supply and demand. It's a reality.

If a shelter or rescue has space for only three dogs, they would be wiser to take the three dogs that are most likely to find homes in a reasonable length of time. Given, of course, that they have good temperments, etc.

A simple mathmatical example ... if you pull three highly adoptable dogs from a kill shelter, and those dogs find homes in a week, then a week later you can go back to the kill shelter and pull three more adoptable dogs, etc. Therefore, in a year you have saved over 150 dogs from death.

OTOH, if you pull three dogs from the kill shelter the first week that are difficult to place ... size, color, breed, whatever ... they may not get adopted for months. Yes, you've eventually saved three dogs that would otherwise die. But, in the mean time, in the three months it took them to find homes, 36 other dogs died while the space was occupied. So, you might end up finding a home for twelve dogs instead of 150 during the course of a year.