A daily dose of philosophical food for your noodle!
A daily dose of philosophical food for your noodle! |
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 | Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 13:08:58 mst
Comment ID: #1 Name: BrianS Isn't it obvious? Racism, pure and simple. | |
| Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 15:07:20 mst
Comment ID: #2 Name: Jared Seehafer E-mail: jared(at)seehafer.net I could see Rotties being discriminated against due to a general aversion to the breed, but not adopting a black lab? Also, the picture on that site makes me sad. | |
| Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 16:10:56 mst
Comment ID: #3 Name: SarahG E-mail: sarah (dot) gelberg (at) att (dot) net Probably the same reason that a lot of shelters won't take black cats anymore--there are just too many of them, and aside from the black cat=bad luck association, people associate black animals with being uninteresting or vicious. I don't know if anyone but me remembers this, but when the Clintons were in the White House, a big to-do was made over the choice of getting a dog, and a chocolate lab was eventually settled upon (I think he was named Buddy). I think they chose a Labrador Retriever because it's a very popular, sociable breed. The reason was that a yellow lab would be so handsome that it would draw attention away from the president, and a black lab would be perceived as threatening. *shrug* My two dark cats (one is black, the other a dark tortie) sat in the shelter for over a month during kitten season while many other more interesting colored cats came and went, for no reason other than color. I adopted them because they were by far the sweetest pair I'd found. | |
| Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 17:49:37 mst
Comment ID: #4 Name: Billy Beck E-mail: wjbiii(at)frontiernet.net URL: http://www.two--four.net/weblog.php "They'd like to make it | |
| Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 17:58:58 mst
Comment ID: #5 Name: Anonymity Well, solid black is a very common color, and a lot of people are drawn to the more colorful or more unusually-colored animals. It's my guess that these preferences are similar to why blonde hair is popular with some people... it's just more unusual and it stands out in a crowd--which is somewhat unfortunate for plain-black animals. | |
| Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 18:57:40 mst
Comment ID: #6 Name: Wayne My theory. Black dogs are less popular because they are photographically 1 to 3 f-stops darker than people. We miss their seeming expressions. They seem less reflexive of us. | |
| Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 19:40:20 mst
Comment ID: #7 Name: Blackie I miss our big, tough black cat so much. He died last year after 16 years. He would run the neighbor's dog out of his own garage. They'd find the big dog standing out in the rain and our black cat sitting in the empty garage. | |
| Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 21:08:28 mst
Comment ID: #8 Name: Michael Labeit E-mail: logician169(at)yahoo.com URL: http://unit-perspective.blogspot.com This is one of the subjects I tackle in my latest book "Race, Class, and Breedist Exploitation: The Ethical Boundaries of Eco-doggist Marxism" | |
| Thursday, April 16, 2009 at 8:09:32 mst
Comment ID: #9 Name: Amy E-mail: mossoffa(at)gmail.com URL: http://www.amymossoff.com I thought black was a popular color, especially for Labs. Interesting. | |
| Friday, April 17, 2009 at 21:57:51 mst
Comment ID: #10 Name: Anonymity Black labs might be very popular; I don't know. But every cat rescuer I've talked with has told me that solid-black cats, especially the short-haired ones, are harder to place. | |
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