Regarding the black lab, those are the hardest dogs for shelters to find homes for. They often don't even try. They just put them down as soon as the owners leave. Even low kill or no kill shelters are guilty of this. I think the way they get around it is they say they don't put any dogs down that are up for adoption. The dogs never made it up for adoption, so they don't really count. People just don't like all black dogs that much. I guess it is grounded in the good guys wear white hats and the bad guys wear black hats. Be careful of doing "free to a good home", some people get those dogs, after convincing the owners that they will give the dog the perfect home. The home they always dreamed of, only to sell them to labs for testing or worse use them as training and bait dogs in dog fighting rings. I think it was Mark Twain who said something about about being able to judge a country by how they treat their animals.
There are some puppy millers selling toy dogs in Kearney. They are by the side of the road. I stopped to check them out. They had a binder with pictures of two rows of wire crates with dogs in them. I told the girl it looked like a puppy mill and she took the binder back and walked away. I went to city hall and complained to the head of codes and developments. He said there wasn't an ordinance against road side vendors selling puppies. Of course this is the same town that named a park and a road after Jesse James and has a festival named after him as well. Good luck finding black dog a home.
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Wow--I thought everyone loved labs, no matter what color. I had no idea that black labs were so difficult to find homes for. How sad!
Good for you for standing up to the puppy millers in Kearney! The more we can hold each other accountable for our actions and treatment of other living things, the better! Thanks for standing up for those who can't stand up for themselves, Aunt M.
the women who was trying to save the lab found a shelter just outside of Topeka who was willing to give her a lease and dog food to take care of the dog, like foster care until they could find someone to adopt. The shelter all ready had 45 labs. How sad for these dogs. Unfortunately this wome had a fire at her house and was forced to move and had to take the dog to the dog pound. She is very sad about having to do it but didn't have a choice. People selling dogs at puppy mills think they will make a quick buck, I guess, at these poor animals expense. What people will do for money almost makes us the animals.
Labs are great family dogs, but they require a lot of physical activity or they find an activity that its human is not pleased with and then they blame the dog for chewing up the furniture, digging holes in the yard and barking. Labs are very strong dogs also and we often see some child of 8 or 9 years of age being dragged down the path by an unruly lab puppy that they "just had to have".
I wish I had the energy to keep up with a dog...it is a shame that the black lab is so easily dismissed....euthanized or abused.
Keep up your efforts to bring the puppy mill situation to light in your community.... a worthy cause.
ellen
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