Once a week this web site picks the most appealing pictures of adoptable pets at Petfinder.com. This week it's dogs, and the breed category is "Open."
Zipcode 10101: Belle, a Baby Dog from Texas
Because. This. Picture. Belle is only two months old and will soon be bigger than this, but not very much bigger. Her ancestors are believed to have belonged to small breeds--Shih Tzu and Pomeranian. I tend to associate those breeds with images of a mat of dingy white fur with eye problems at one end, but as shown, if the dog is a more attractive color and the hair is trimmed away from the eyes, they can be cute. And small enough to get by with short walks, too, and to live in a New York apartment.
Zipcode 20202: Jonah, a Teacherly Dog, Also from Texas
I just happen to like police-type dogs. So I thought this picture was cute. So I clicked, and read that despite having a name some consider unlucky, this is the fantastic sort of pet who will sit down beside another animal when it's panicky and get the other animal to calm down. A proper pack leader.
The adoption fee is preposterous because it includes transportation from Texas to Washington, D.C. If you happen to be in Texas already, you can haggle.
What's up with all these rural dogs on the big city Petfinder pages? Though shelters that use the Internet usually try to discourage inquiries from people who can't just drive out and meet an animal, there are times when small-town shelters have supply-and-demand problems. "Even when blogger blog about shelter dogs, they never blog about us," they all wail. (They should check out Blogspot's Messy Mimi, who blogs about working at a shelter in Louisiana.) "Our small-town shelter hardly ever sees a fresh face. Days go by when the only people who look at our animals are our volunteers, two senile old ladies who hobble through public buildings for exercise every morning, and a fifth grade student whose parents say no pets. If these animals' photos were only listed on the New York, D.C., or Atlanta page, somebody like Priscilla King might blog about them." (Well. You see.)
So let's put it this way. Jonah's in Texas but he's up for adoption in Washington. Somewhere in between, maybe in Arkansas, somebody was just saying--was it this morning?--"I want a serious dog, but the last time they had a police dog at the county shelter, it was that dog Bill Jones gave up hope of training as a service dog because of its brain damage." For you, whoever you are, here is a serious dog. Drive out and wave one Benjamin in their faces, say "I'll do the transportation myself," watch someone who was hoping to get a free trip to Washington squirm, and adopt your serious dog. Just plan on seriously feeding, walking, grooming, and vetting him as he deserves.
/Zipcode 30303: Penny the Pup Who Really Is in Atlanta
Her web page: https://www.petfinder.com/dog/penny-64643937/ga/atlanta/the-pretty-pittie-committee-al499/
Penny currently weighs about fifteen pounds, at four months old, and is expected to reach a healthy weight of two to three times that much. And she's just a puppy. You should have a large fenced yard.
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