If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#41
|
|||
|
|||
Scariest LOOKING breeds, public perception?
|
#42
|
|||
|
|||
Scariest LOOKING breeds, public perception?
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 15:59:37 +0000 (UTC), ceb
, clicked their heels and said: I was pretty surprised to find one large, separate area with kennels full of big black dogs that had been deemed unadoptable. There were probably about 20 of them and they all looked very similar. That's really shocking to me, as you might imagine. I wonder if they automatically put bb dogs in that area, or if they tried them first in the general population. I do too. Usually, they just tend to blend together. I had a student several years ago, who when asked (standard form) why he chose his dog, his answer was "it was the only dog in the shelter that wasn't black". Hmmm. I really love dogs of all kinds and colors, and it's at least partially accidental that all three of mine are black (only the 3rd was intentionally meant to "match"). But it all started with Zoe, who was the cutest little pup -- when she played she really looked like a little black bear cub! And people tell me all the time how gorgeous Queenie is. So why this strange prejudice, I wonder? We all have preferences, but I think en masse, they tend to all start to look too similar (most tend to be smooth to medium hair, labbish dogs). *I* love black dogs! I only have 2 colors of dogs - they're either black or they're gold. No variance. Can't imagine that ever changing. -- Janet Boss www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com |
#43
|
|||
|
|||
Scariest LOOKING breeds, public perception?
"ceb" wrote in message: (I personally find it a little bit hard to believe that black dogs are adopted less often, but I suppose my personal preferences are not all universal.) Big figures in the equation prominently. Larger dogs are harder to adopt out than smaller ones as well. I don't get that either, since my personal preference runs very strongly towards larger dogs. Suja |
#44
|
|||
|
|||
Scariest LOOKING breeds, public perception?
"Suja" wrote in
: "ceb" wrote in message: (I personally find it a little bit hard to believe that black dogs are adopted less often, but I suppose my personal preferences are not all universal.) Big figures in the equation prominently. Larger dogs are harder to adopt out than smaller ones as well. I don't get that either, since my personal preference runs very strongly towards larger dogs. Suja And I thought that was so often the case -- people I've known who have loved dogs have mostly (maybe 80% of them, I'd say) loved big dogs and thought small ones were somehow less "dog-like." Someone just asked me yesterday if Max was less dog-like than bigger dogs. I said not really, he has all the big dog behaviors. It's true he's a silly piece of fluff, but then Queenie is too -- just six times the size. And somewhat less fluff. I suppose a big, untrained shelter dog clamoring for attention or, worse, barking when approached might seem a bit daunting to an adopter -- so maybe the adoption environment also contributes to the problem. -- Catherine & Zoe the cockerchow & Queenie the black gold retriever & Max the Pomeranian & Rosalie the calico cat |
#45
|
|||
|
|||
Scariest LOOKING breeds, public perception?
"Paul E. Schoen" wrote in news:4599f0f2$0$2644$ecde5a14
@news.coretel.net: but I think I have done a good job with Muttley and he is now family. Didn't you just give him away last week only to have him returned to you a few days later? Tara |
#46
|
|||
|
|||
Scariest LOOKING breeds, public perception?
|
#47
|
|||
|
|||
Scariest LOOKING breeds, public perception?
In article ,
Paula wrote: Sometimes we have a bunch of unadoptables who are being held for court cases. Maybe they were part of the evidence for a prosecution. Or they could have all been bred by some idiot from their aggressive dog or trained by idiots to be aggressive or something. I hope they don't just assume that big and black equals man eater. This was about 15 years ago and my recollection is that they had identified them as "unadoptable" because experience had shown that big black dogs didn't get adopted. That is to say, it's not that they were rogue dogs or bad dogs, it's that they were big black dogs. I do think that shelter operations have gotten a lot more "enlightened" over the past decade or so. -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - Sending more troops into a war is properly called an "escalation." |
#48
|
|||
|
|||
Scariest LOOKING breeds, public perception?
|
#49
|
|||
|
|||
Scariest LOOKING breeds, public perception?
On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 22:01:08 GMT, Paula ,
clicked their heels and said: How many people shelter shopping are going to go up and ask why and if they can't please just adopt one of the dogs labeled unadoptable? Then you have a self-fulfilling prophecy on your hands. Our shelters save the unadoptable section for dogs that are highly aggressive so they don't want the liability of adopting them out but can't PTS until the period for an owner to claim them is up or they are set aside for another reason, like being evidence in a prosecution. Some of them are also under quarantine. It would never occur to me to assume something really drastic hadn't happened and I should look to adopt a dog from that area. I wouldn't even go in that separate room unless looking for my own dog that had escaped and might have been picked up or something similar. The shelters I have been familiar with don't make seeing those dogs possible. Chained off areas, secured doors, whatever, but they are not for the public viewing. If the dogs were unadoptable due to aggression, all it takes is one finger through the kennel door...... -- Janet Boss www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com |
#50
|
|||
|
|||
Scariest LOOKING breeds, public perception?
Janet B wrote in
: The shelters I have been familiar with don't make seeing those dogs possible. Chained off areas, secured doors, whatever, but they are not for the public viewing. If the dogs were unadoptable due to aggression, all it takes is one finger through the kennel door...... Yeah, in ours you have to have a reason to be in there and you have a shelter worker with you. If you have taken a shelter worker away for anything but you are looking for your dog and think it might be in there kind of situation, you are going to catch hell. Paula |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
rec.pets.dogs: Mastiffs Breed-FAQ | Mike McBee | Dog info | 0 | May 21st 06 05:23 AM |
rec.pets.dogs: Mastiffs Breed-FAQ | Mike McBee | Dog info | 0 | March 20th 06 05:33 AM |
rec.pets.dogs: Mastiffs Breed-FAQ | Mike McBee | Dog info | 0 | January 18th 06 05:48 AM |
rec.pets.dogs: Mastiffs Breed-FAQ | Mike McBee | Dog info | 0 | December 19th 05 05:36 AM |