Walk Fido: Fido Findings

For those of us who work with rescue organizations every day, there is a sad, sad phrase that is often uttered about the single most difficult type of dogs to find homes for: big black dogs. No matter how lovely the dog is, no matter how perfect the temperament, many potential adoptive families overlook big black dogs at shelters all across the country in favor of dogs that have more unique coloring (blue! red! orange with stripes! white with brown spots!). This issue is so close to our hearts (we have a little black pit bull after all!) that we've decided to feature a weekly roundup of local BBDs that need homes. Their photos and links to their profile on PetFinder will remain on our site until these dogs find a home.

February 11, 2010

Fido Findings

A lot of great news has cropped up this week in the dogosphere. Many important issues about he challenges of finding & keeping foster homes for dogs in need, no-kill policies at shelters and much more. Each of these links below deserves its own post and we suspect that over the next few days, we'll have our thoughts and ideas firmly sorted out enough to further the discussion here at the Walk Fido blog.

In the meantime, these debates and discussions are so important, we wanted to share them poste haste:

The Bark asks the important question - Is a "No Kill Nation" Impossible or Inevitable?
BAD RAP breaks our hearts with the realities of how difficult it is to find forever homes
Bay Woof has a good list of questions you should ask your dog walker (and of course we've got some thoughts about these that we will be sharing next week!)

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