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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 389429" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>That IS odd. I wonder if they used him because they could tell anyone who asked that he had "just" been adopted but they have lots of other cute dogs to adopt? One of Jessie's first teachers here in OK was the driving force that turned our county into the one with the lowest kill rate at animal control. She really keeps our entire community mobilized to help the Humane Society here. C told us one day that when a really cute pet is shown in an ad they often get lots of people who want that specific animal and will get pages of names of people who want that specific animal if the earlier families don't get approved. Our small humane society would end up with over 100 names for a specific dog and they were often mostly unwilling to even consider another animal in the shelter. If they can tell the people that the dog went to a family already the people often will find another pet to adopt. It is odd, but if they think they have any small chance to get that specific dog they don't want to look at other animals and maybe "miss" the chance to get that cute puppy from the photo.</p><p> </p><p>That whole way of thinking makes no sense to me, but it might explain why they used your puppy instead of one who hadn't been adopted. Or maybe the person who created the ad didn't bother to look at the info about Toby before they finalized the ad. </p><p> </p><p>Does your shelter do a home visit? The humane society here has a group of volunteers who stop by your home unannounced to see if you are providing a suitable environment and suitable care for the animal(s). I wondered if other shelters/humane societies do that or just ours?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 389429, member: 1233"] That IS odd. I wonder if they used him because they could tell anyone who asked that he had "just" been adopted but they have lots of other cute dogs to adopt? One of Jessie's first teachers here in OK was the driving force that turned our county into the one with the lowest kill rate at animal control. She really keeps our entire community mobilized to help the Humane Society here. C told us one day that when a really cute pet is shown in an ad they often get lots of people who want that specific animal and will get pages of names of people who want that specific animal if the earlier families don't get approved. Our small humane society would end up with over 100 names for a specific dog and they were often mostly unwilling to even consider another animal in the shelter. If they can tell the people that the dog went to a family already the people often will find another pet to adopt. It is odd, but if they think they have any small chance to get that specific dog they don't want to look at other animals and maybe "miss" the chance to get that cute puppy from the photo. That whole way of thinking makes no sense to me, but it might explain why they used your puppy instead of one who hadn't been adopted. Or maybe the person who created the ad didn't bother to look at the info about Toby before they finalized the ad. Does your shelter do a home visit? The humane society here has a group of volunteers who stop by your home unannounced to see if you are providing a suitable environment and suitable care for the animal(s). I wondered if other shelters/humane societies do that or just ours? [/QUOTE]
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