Ten Ways You Can Help Black Dogs

[furryfaces]

Black Pearl Dogs is a website specifically designed *”to promote the appreciation—and adoption—of black dogs. Here is their list of ‘Ten Ways You Can Help A Waiting Black Pearl Dog’

1) Spay and neuter your pets. Urge those around you to do the same.

2) If you can adopt, please consider adopting a black dog who is waiting just for you. *”Many beautiful black dogs are overlooked—and, sadly, euthanized in disproportionate numbers”.

3) Sponsor a black dog or open your heart and home to foster care for a black dog (if you can’t adopt), in a rescue or shelter so they can open their doors to another black dog on death row without worry of finances.

4) If you can’t sponsor or foster, make posters for a black dog you find in a shelter or rescue to **advertise** their need of a home on community bulletin boards, vet offices, pet stores, your work office board, the company newsletter, the school paper. Gain permission from the sponsoring rescue or shelter first. Include the Blackpearldogs webpage address as part of the advertisement so interested people can understand more fully the plight this waiting BlackPearl faces. See one woman’s brilliant work

5) Go past your apprehensions and stretch yourself: walk a black-dog-in-waiting in a park and advertise to all that s/he needs a home. They will appreciate that you left your comfort zone so they could (hopefully) enter into one.

6) Volunteer to take them to obedience classes to attain skills that will make them more adoptable to the average family or teach them an endearing human greeting (like sit and shake).

7) Share this webpage address to let all dog lovers know how wonderful and in need a black dog is in today’s’ canine adoption community. We at Contrary to Ordinary are not a rescue facility. We know there are many cogs to make the wheel turn and we are fulfilling our niche of being an educational platform to get the word out so those gifted with other talents (i.e., foster care, transportation, fund raising, placement and adoption matching) can fulfill their niches to help the waiting black dogs out there.

8) Start your own rescue…just for black dogs rescued off euthanasia row. They can be found easily and it can be done just one dog at a time. Be inspired by the Starfish Story and Stop the Killing.

9) Click on “Free To A Good Home” and read Brutus’s story. Help a black dog (or any dog for that matter)avoid this fate. Prepare your own rescue aids using the tools found here at Sun Bears Squad.

10) For those with savvy or flair: coordinate a “Tux and Tails” event for your local shelters or rescues. Gather up all the black coated critters waiting to find their forever heart and “do the bubbles” to make all fresh and clean. Add a tux (red or white) bow tie or a snappy collar (Bison Designs has brilliant ones) and provide these waiting pearlies the opportunity to “run way” their stuff and become available for folks to appreciate them out of a dimly lit kennel run. You could even go as elaborate as every hour have a “walk” set to music with cards read that share what they already know: sit, down, off, fetch. I am guessing some of the pearlies would even do a demonstration of what they have to offer. Have a table set up to take applications or to donate financially to support these waiting pearls.

**The image that you make….i.e. the picture that you take….. may be the key to his or her being adopted by the right person. Black dogs are in desperate need of great photos in shelter listings. Practice using tips from “Photographing a Black Dog” to get your technique down before applying to help all the shelter animals have a better photographic chance to meet their future forever person.

To learn more about Black Dogs go to:

http://www.blackpearldogs.com/Premise.html

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[The Velvet Bulldog]

We’re fostering a black lab/shar pei mix right now. She is incredibly sweet (it’s taking a lot of convincing that she’s NOT a lap dog!) She’s also a lot of work because her former owners didn’t train or socialize her. However, thanks to Animal Aid and Rescue Foundation (AARF) we’re being trained to train the dog, and they’re buying the food. It’s a win-win situation, and someone will be getting a wonderful (mostly black) dog when she goes to her forever home.

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[furryfaces]

Thanks for fostering for AARF! They are great group.

Will you be going to their comedy event, ‘Stand Up For Pits’, by Rebecca Correy, on Sunday? A few of us are volunteering at it. Maybe we will get to meet your girl?

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[2 Much Whine]

I don’t get it – people don’t like dogs if they’re black? Never thought of that before. I suppose statistics tell the story but it seems so strange to me. Is it because their fur shows up on white clothes? I just don’t get it.

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[anonyme]

I always thought it was because they don’t photograph well – same goes for black cats. They’re lovely in person, though. My next dog will be black, current cat already is.

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[westcoastdeb]

I just said the other day that I never want another NOT black cat. They just seem to have a certain swagger. The looking like a mini panther thing is awesome too.

Black dogs, I never thought of that problem before.

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[2 Much Whine]

Really? Whether a pet takes good photos is actually a consideration? Seems so ludicrious to me. I thought pets were chosen because they connected with their owners – didn’t think it was about the color of their fur. That’s as good an explanation as any I suppose.

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[furryfaces]

The Black Pearl Dog website will provide more background. We Furry Faces people love dark colored animals…most of us have more than one.

There are multitude of reasons folks may not be as apt to adopt a black/dark colored animal, ranging from the fact that the ‘dark color’ gene is dominant, therefore there are more dark colored animals -to- the animals don’t visually stand out as much when in a sea of other colored fur.

We have found that black animals are some of the most loving companions you can find. Plus, they are elegant, sleek, amazing looking beings. We share this information hoping the next time people are thinking of adopting, the first ones they they want to meet are the black ones.

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[miws]

TVB, who is needing the convincing that Fosterpup is not a lap dog, Fosterpup, or Fosterpup Parents? ;-)

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[anonyme]

2much, lots of people find pets on Petfinder or other adoption websites – not in person. They pick out an animal they like the looks of, and then arrange to meet via the agency or foster care provider. For many it’s looks first, personality later. I didn’t just make this up; several people who run adoption groups told me that black animals have a tougher time due to not being photogenic. I’m sure it’s not the only reason, but it is a factor.

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[miws]

Regarding the photo thingy, that makes as much sense as anything.

I’m otherwise mystified at the dislike for black dogs. Black cats I “get”, due to the unfair and unfounded perception that they are bad luck.

Kinda makes a person want to out and by a ladder, some salt, a mirror, and an umbrella with a tag on it that sez; For Indoor Use Only, to give to them! ;-)

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