Anyway, BDS stands for Black Dog Syndrome. It is proven fact that black dogs in shelters are overlooked more often than any other colour. Black dogs are the last to be adopted – even if their temperament is better than the dogs of other colours!The general public tend to look at black dogs with disgust, fear and superstition. Because of their low adoption rates, black dogs tend to be euthanized more often in kill facilities. Why? Simply because people don’t want a black dog.
I’ve never heard of this before, but it’s quite interesting, in my opinion. Why do black dogs have such bad reputations?
But then I think back over all the black dogs I’ve met, most of them were big, really big. Black labs, Rottweilers, Dobermans…
To me, big dogs are scary. I tend to like my smaller dogs. Not quite lapdogs, but they seem to think they are anyway.
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