Here are the next two we are listing for adoption on PetFinder — our adorable Poodle sisters, Molly and Priscilla. (Alayne, though she is adorable too, is not included in the adoption package.) We are going to adopt them out together because of how bonded they are with each other. Plus, their antics playing and roughhousing together are priceless. As much as we would love to keep these two blind girls, we realize there's a wonderful family for them out there somewhere, and it's time to try again.
I say "try again" because we had Molly and Priscilla on PetFinder for nearly a year, stretching from 2009 into 2010. Over the course of that time we had four separate inquiries on them — and oddly, in their initial set of questions each person asked specifically 1) how much do they weigh? and 2) what is their height? These were in their very first "Top 4" questions — in fact, a couple of people made them their No. 1 and No. 2 questions! It seemed odder still because Molly and Priscilla's PetFinder page showed a photo of them with Alayne (the same one above), making clear how big they were.
We have been adopting out animals for over a decade, and we can't recall someone asking about an animal's height and weight. Certainly never as their very first questions. Moreover, these weren't the typical "Oh, I think I'm in love with these two girls, how do I go about adopting them?" kind of adoption emails we normally get. Instead, they were rather clinical in their tone and the kinds of questions they were asking. We reacted to the focus on weight and height the same way we do if someone asks us about a dog up for adoption, "Does he shed?" It's a signal that this isn't the right kind of person to adopt one of our animals.
After getting four in a row with these same weight and height questions, I finally asked the fourth person, "excuse me, but why would it matter?" She told me that since standard Poodles vary in size, it was important to know Molly and Priscilla's specific dimensions. (Other breeds don't vary in size? Well, whatever.)
Like I said, it was a red flag for us. With four of these inquiries, all asking the same thing — and these being the only ones we received — it just felt a little too weird. We decided to take the girls off PetFinder for a while and make another run at it later.
So … here they are! Adorable, lovable, playful — and beautiful!
P.S. Someone's bound to ask about Trooper. I've said this elsewhere in earlier posts, but the Poodle sisters are long over their "thing" with Trooper and he is in a separate play yard these days. They don't miss that no-good two-timing hound dog.
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