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Showing posts with label Lucky Dog Animal Rescue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lucky Dog Animal Rescue. Show all posts

Monday, October 13, 2014

Black Dog Syndrome - Why Do People Discriminate Against Dark Pets?


Just when you were hoping there were no new ways to be racist, it turns out people may be racist against dogs. Black Dog Syndrome is the name shelter workers have given to the tendency of dark-furred pups to languish in kennels while their lighter-furred brethren get adopted. “The effect is very real,” says Mirah Horowitz, executive director and founder of Lucky Dog Animal Rescue. “We recently had a litter of five very cute, very fluffy puppies, two yellow and three black. And the yellow ones all went immediately, but for the black ones it took weeks.”

To read more on this story, click here: Black Dog Syndrome









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