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Originally Posted by beachdog  Not my lucky Friday the 13th. I think I'll give up for awhile. Mostly huge dogs there and a million cats! It was great to see so many being adopted. On the way out the door was (of course) a man standing there with his Yorkie. He already owned it, not from the event. Nearly broke my heart, she was so cute. |
Oh, you sound like me. I had so many days like today for you. Went to adoption events, haunted the shelters, called the local Yorkie rescues(most never returned my calls) and if they did, the Yorkie I was calling about had just been adopted. After years of mourning Jilly & then over a year of looking for a small terrier type dog I could easily lift with my bad back & hip, I called Jilly's breeder. I got so tired of going into all those places so full of hope and finding no little terrier or terrier mix under 10 lbs. that hadn't already been signed for or they didn't have. I must have seen over 4,000 or 5,000 pitbull type dogs and GSD- and Lab- mixes but the small terrier dogs under 10 lbs. - I came too late to get first option & on claiming day, the first signer always showed up and got the little dog I so wanted. It sure got discouraging after a few months of that and then after over a year passed, I was pretty low on getting any type of small dog of the terrier type that I didn't have to have shipped to me. You get so tired of never finding a dog for you, you do have to stop looking for a while. Take your time "off" and then restart searching again when you've got your reveserves built back up.