Rant!!!!

[BC_MoM]

I am a member on several Border Collie (rescue) boards.

In the section where BC's in need of rescuing are posted, I've noticed that people make a big deal about reds and merles. It drives me up the wall.

Example: There were 4 BC's in a high kill pound. Two reds and a merle were saved. The black and white boy is still there.

And no one has even backed up with a reason WHY they take the reds over the blacks. One I've heard before is reds get adopted faster. It may be true, but NO ONE should buy a dog based on it's colour.

Maybe I'm just crouchy because it's almost 2 AM. But still.

[DrKym]

So your breed has the opposite of mine? The red Dobies stay and the blacks move.

Drives me crazy too, but without education people won't change.

[ScottieMommy]

Thats pathetic, the Black one might be a sweetheart and the other one a evil little thing but they take him/her only for the color? Thats completly WRONG.

[DJFyrewolf36]

Ive noticed that with Dobermans too, Dr Goodnow. Its part of the reason why my dads boy, Max was going to be PTS the SAME day my dad contacted the breed rescue about him.

Now, what is so unadoptable about THIS boy?


The pup in front is my moms mutt (you tell me what she is lol) Twilight.

[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!