Quote Originally Posted by happylabs View Post
Seriously? That seems odd to me. I have never heard this. My grandpuppy Zoey Lynn is black and so is my Tuxedo Tinker. I love black Labs!
Sadly it is true, they even call it the "BBD syndrome" - Big Black Dogs are often the last to be adopted, the same holds true for cats. Being black they are literally harder to see in the kennel, especially if they are toward the back in the shadows. So they literally get overlooked. Their eyes are often harder to pick out, and eyes are what often catch peoples' hearts, after all. And so they stay longer, and then get sadder and sadder, and who wants a sad dog?

My sister-in-law's cat, Sofi - still doing well, by the way, 11 years after she was Cat of the Day, was chosen BECAUSE she was so sad, and curled up in a corner and withdrawn, and when Gail's boyfriend-at-the-time said "Why don't we take her, she seems to need us the most." Gail told me later that that was the moment when she knew this guy was the one, and they are now married with 3 black rescue kitties!

Chance is such a shiny, happy boy! He truly deserves his own thread, thanks, mom!