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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PG county animal shelter has a lot of pit mixes, but lots that are not. In the size range you described, they currently have a German shepherd mix in foster (Star), a shih Tzu mix (rocket), a corgi-dachshund (puperoni), a PBGV mix (Bella) and several others. River the lab mix is a bit bigger than you wanted but also super cute.

pg county doesn't get as many adopters and puts dogs down for lack of space, so if you foster or adopt one you are really saving its life and allowing room for another dog to stay there.[/quote]

This is an excellent point.  A close relative runs the a county animal shelter in another state, and to quote her "the South really needs to get their shit together."   Dogs are being rescued down there and being brought to rescues up here because shelters down there kill them right and left, then folks up here go to the rescues and not our shelters and then OUR shelters have to start killing.  [b]On top of that, most rescues won't take dogs back (because they're typically housed with foster families and not in a rescue's own physical space), so "returned" rescue dogs from the south end up in our shelters.  [/b]

Just keep this in mind when you're looking at rescues and not shelters.
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While I agree with many of your pointy, bolded doesn't really happen with reputable rescues. 
As far as I know, Lucky Dog always takes their dogs back and place in foster care, it's written in their contracts that dogs should be returned to LDAR and not surrendered to shelters (and I've seen couple of cases when they pulled former Lucky dogs from county shelters)[/quote]

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