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• a  difficult to place in an adoptive home

• But the question remains for shelter operators across the country: Why does it appear that black dogs, particularly the large ones, and black cats are unadoptable?.
• Until two years ago, thousands of unadoptable mustangs were crowded into dusty feeding pens in Nebraska, Nevada and Texas at a cost to taxpayers of $13 million a year.
• Though the Saigon government still considers most of its abandoned children unadoptable (because a parent may still be alive), a few restrictions are being eased.

• adoptable

News & Articles

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• ‘The Possibility Dogs’ Author Talks Healing After PTSD
  Service dog trainer and bestselling author Susannah Charles joined us to talk about her new book "The Possibility Dogs," which sheds light on the importance of the human-animal bond and her work training "unadoptable" animals into service dogs.
  June 6, 2013 - CBS New York

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• Victoria Stilwell in Houston Chronicle
  And it becomes a yo-yo dog - in and out and in and out,Stilwell said. "And, my gosh, you get to the point where the dog is stressed out and seems unadoptable because of what it has been through."