(PHOTOS) Thursday Is National Black Dog Day: How To Adopt In Montgomery County

Thursday, October 1, is National Black Dog Day.

According to some shelters, black dogs are harder to get adopted out because of something known as “black dog syndrome.”

Black dogs are overlooked in shelters sometimes due to preconceptions based on portrayals in books or movies, say some shelter officials.

“Sometimes black dogs are seen as scarier by people,” Hope Hancock, the executive director of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Wake County in Raleigh, N.C., told ABC News. “It’s very, very unfair -- you can get a bite from a little yellow Chihuahua faster than one of the bigger black dogs.”

At Patch, we’ve concocted several antidotes to black dog syndrome. The first is several pictures of black dogs:

Lola

Lola, several months later

Missy

Xavi

Xavi

The second is information on how to adopt a black dog in the Montgomery County area:

• Montgomery County SPCA, 19 E. Ridge Pike, Conshohocken - (610) 825-0111
• Pet Smart, 2100 Chemical Rd, Plymouth Meeting
• Main Line Animal Rescue, 1149 Pike Springs Rd, Phoenixville
• The Montgomery County SPCA, 1006 Edge Hill Rd, Abington
• Pawsibilities Animal Rescue, 2048 Mainland Rd, Harleysville