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[quote=Anonymous]Another +1 for Lost Dog and Cat.  We had a great experience with them.

We did have an experience similar to OP's with a different large organization mentioned on this thread, where the dog we were interested in was being fostered in a crated-during-workday situation but they would not adopt to us because we work outside the home and planned to crate.  Instead they really pushed a much older dog that had growled at us when we met it.  Ultimately I agree that the dog we were interested in was not a good fit, and we did end up with a slightly older dog from Lost Dog.  So, I'm not unhappy about the outcome.  But the impression we got at the time was that there was a double standard for acceptable care, that they were unwilling to work with us on solutions (like a dog walker) that might have made us a good fit for the dog, that they were "withholding" the dog we wanted in order to push a less adoptable dog, and possibly that certain dogs were not truly available for adoption but were de facto adopted by the foster home and would just stay there in perpetuity.  It left a very sour taste and has come up in our conversations with potential adopters who ask our input.  [/quote]

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