[Drugmachine]

I agree, HA, especially if its FEAR motivated should not be adopted out. A good percentage of those dogs, its their temp that's bad and there's not a whole lot you cando about that. Mange it, yes, but fix it? No. If you were to send a dog like that out it would have to be with a REAL responsible adopter. My local kill shelter tries to dump these temp issue dogs on rescues all the time, I know it b/c that's how I ended up with my first bully breed. Murph was a sweet guy and I still miss him everyday, but he was terrified of everything, not comfortable in his own skin. Thankfully when he had the choice he chose flight, but I got a real bad bite from him after I startled him awake. Now at that time he already was very sick with cancer, I don't know how much that played into it, but he was a hard dog to own, we always had to be on our guard with him. The shelter probably should have had him pts. Don't get me wrong I am glad we got the 4 1/2 years we did with him, but it was not easy managing a dog who flips out and pises himself when he leaves the house. That's no way to live.