Black dogs and cats take longer to adopt than other colors, and the phenomenon even has a name-black dog or a black cat syndrome.
"I can put litter where you have black people and brown ones, and, across the Board, people will tell you the chocolate will be adopted first if all their other characteristics are the same," said Gretchen Fieser, a spokesman for Western Pennsylvania Humane Society.
The shelter say the reasons varied from the superstition of the difficulty in photographing animals black for adoption website, but the end result is usually the same, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (http://bit.ly/suQ1x0) reported Friday.
Take the Hogan, mixed-breed dogs small black that is part of the three was taken to the Westmoreland County Humane Society, 30 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. His brother is more light to be adopted soon.
But Hogan, now 6 months old, still waiting, Executive Director of the Humane Society Kathy Burkley said.