So many people think that if a dog's in a shelter, there must be something wrong with it. But that's absolutely not true. They're there because there's something wrong with the people who had them (like - they're stupid). Max is an awesome dog. I could never have asked for a better dog - and he was from a shelter. Pepper was from a shelter, too - and she was such a sweet little thing, I'll never forget her.

People put their dogs in the shelter because they don't match the couch, or because they didn't housetrain themselves, or because they smell "doggy" - you name it. It's very rarely because the dogs themselves are bad. If the dogs are put in the shelter because they bite, usually the shelter's not even allowed to adopt them out.