National Black Dog Day: Black Dog Myths, Folklore and the Truth About Black Dogs in Shelters

National Black Dog Day: Black Dog Myths, Folklore and the Truth About Black Dogs in Shelters

By Director of Education, Tannisha Duncan
Black Dogs, Bad Luck & the Stories We Still Carry Why have black dogs spent centuries being associated with fear, bad luck and the unknown? And could some of those old perceptions still influence how we see black dogs today? For National Black Dog Day, we're going further than celebrating a coat color. We're going back to the folklore. Because long before black dogs appeared on shelter website...