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...after floodwaters destroyed their home and belongings in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the Slaymaker family - Tom, 35, Kara, 37, Samantha, 16, and Andrew, 10 - are living in a neighboring community in a mobile home provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The trailer is better than the Slaymakers' previous shelter - a tent in a friend's backyard where the family camped for three weeks after the Cedar River swamped 1,300 city blocks in early June, prompting 25,000 residents to evacuate. Better, but still not home. "I'm worn out," says Tom Slaymaker. "I have no idea how long...
Some of the reasons may be more pragmatic. Black dogs have to be specially lighted for photography and therefore don't show up well on shelter websites, and in pamphlets and flyers. Visitors have trouble noticing them too in poorly lit kennels. "In a lot of shelter environments the lighting is not that great to begin with," says Pam Black Townsend, a shelter volunteer at the SPCA/Humane Society of Prince George's County in Maryland, whose photo book of black dogs raises money for the shelter www.pgspca.org. "They are hard to photograph and some people say, with black dogs, their...
...shelter, Utopia Ranch, we have a lot of large, black, indiscriminate-looking dogs," says Kinky Friedman, the Texas musician, author and onetime gubernatorial candidate. In the eight years since his South Texas rescue ranch has been operating, a majority of the dogs left at the gate or rescued from town shelters are black, Friedman says, and a look at the ranch website confirms that view. There are two unwanted black mutts that have been given the supermodel names Christy Brinkley and Bridgett Bardot by Friedman's cousin Nancy Parker-Simons, who with her husband runs the rescue operation. And there...
...hurricane in Mississippi, and Bella, a black dog with a sugar-dipped muzzle, the white and gray wisps of hair that often give black dogs an aging appearance. "Bella is Keeta's dog," Harris says, a "soulful" black dog of unknown age who came from an urban Nashville shelter just days before she was scheduled to be euthanized...
Some experts dispute the severity of "black dog syndrome." Kimberley Intino, director of animal sheltering issues for the Humane Society of the United States, cites one study by Pethealth Inc., a pet insurance and animal microchip company, that went through numbers from 679 shelters and found black dogs indeed had longer stays before being adopted - but just by two days on average. "The idea that black dogs are not being adopted is not as gloomy as it is being portrayed," Intino says. But the anecdotal evidence seems hard to dispute. When it announced its unfortunate promotion, over half the dogs...