# Fraudulent Dog Adoption

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 12, 2009, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fraudulent-dog-adoption/517349 "2009-11-12T19:36:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fraudulent-dog-adoption/517349/16 "2009-11-12T20:31:36Z")

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> [@EmAnJ](#):
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> Most shelters and rescues do that. They don’t want a dog going to a family/person that can’t reasonably take care of it. A large, energetic dog living in a small condo with no yard will be destructive and cause problems. That type of situation will be very hard on a dog, and even harder if the owner becomes frustrated and either abandons or beats the dog. It’s better off dead then in a situation like that.
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> Also, the org I foster for also has similar provisions in the contract as stated previously in the thread.

Moral superior judgment that. I won’t get into a discussion on how wrong that is.

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