[Doodlebug]

This is interesting. I have also tried to adopt from Petfinder and have never gotten a response. All of the dogs I have had prior to this were rescues.

A couple of years ago my husband and I saw a Maltese mix puppy featured on tv and wanted to adopt him. You had to apply in person so we traveled in freezing cold weather on terrible icy streets to apply because we thought there would be very few people going out in this weather to apply. We thought we had an excellent chance of getting this puppy. They told us there were only like 4 applicants and our application looked really good. We were really hopeful. Their usual practice was to take applications for 24 hours but because of the weather they changed their usual practice and took applications for a week. They got tons of applications. We had an great fenced yard and are huge dog lovers. We have both always had rescue dogs and kept them their entire lifetimes. This wasn't a snap decision, we had been searching for the right puppy for 2 years. Needless to say, we didn't get the puppy. I cannot understand why they extended the deadline for applications when I know that they had at lease one excellent applicaiton (ours). We were so disappointed at that point that we decided to find a breeder and buy a puppy. I don't regret that decision now since we got our Yorkies. But I just don't understand their adoption practices.