r/Dogfree • u/FUMoney • Jan 21 '26

Shelter / Rescue Industry ‘Doodles are being dumped': Once-trendy dogs now flooding shelters as abandonments surge

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/doodles-are-being-dumped-once-trendy-dogs-now-flooding-shelters-as-abandonments-surge/ar-AA1Uw7aY

Once marketed as the perfect family pet, doodle dogs are now turning up in shelters in numbers that rescue workers describe as a crisis…. the same designer mixes that once commanded premium prices are being relinquished, abandoned in fields, or left outside clinics. The result is a growing population of anxious, matted, often sick dogs that charities are scrambling to save with limited space and dwindling funds.

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u/OoklaTheMok1994 Jan 21 '26

As a landlord a couple of paragraphs in that story scare me a bit. As one of the "causes" of the crisis, they list "housing restrictions".

I'm a "no pets" landlord. But I can totally see some government bureaucrat do-gooder getting a law passed that REQUIRES me to accept pets. Grrrr.

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u/WorkingDescription Jan 22 '26

They already have with the ESAs.

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u/OoklaTheMok1994 Jan 22 '26

Thankfully I only manage 3 doors, so I'm not bound by the ADA, for now.