Originally posted by aly
Didn't the shelter require all people in the family to meet the dog before adopting? I would suggest your brothers going with you next time so that this won't happen again. Its very confusing for dogs to get adopted then go back to the shelter so fast. Please tell the shelter everything that happened so that they will have the information and perhaps not send her home to young kids.


I was going to make this comment but you beat me to the punch! I too am wondering why the whole family did not go to help pick out a dog. When we were looking for dogs, we took Dylan and all of us went! If the dog will be a family dog, the family must go and make the decision as a whole.

Dogs can sense fear also, she may have knew your brother way afraid.