Quote Originally Posted by IRescue452 View Post
I know black cats have a harder time with adoption, but I'm still not convinced about the dogs. I think the dog problem is specifically black labradors as they are far too common and easy to come across. If it were a black great dane, newfoundland, border collie, cocker spaniel, chihuahua, poodle, and so on; they'd have no problem being adopted at the same rate as another of their breed with a lighter color.

I do agree that the "black lab mix syndrome" is the major hurdle for shelters. I don't think you would find a single shelter in the country that would disagree with that.

Here we also have a very large number of border collie mixes, almost always black, that suffer from the same over-exposure problem. We call them the "Wyoming State Dog".

However, I have to disagree somewhat about black dogs of other breeds not having a harder time getting adopted. It is certainly true that a black cocker or chihuahua is going to be adopted long before a black lab mix is. However, I have seen too many times to count that given a litter of puppies, the black ones are always the last to be adopted. And if several dogs of the same breed are brought to the shelter together ... no matter the breed ... the black ones stay the longest.