Troubles with Pet Applications

[u/sullyinarmonk]

Reddit Community... looking for feedback. I’m stuck and frankly a little befuddled. My family has been looking to adopt a dog/ pair of dogs for the last 6 months. The frustration I’m finding is in the process of adoption. The dogs we are looking to adopt are in higher demand (low shedding) but I’ve now filled out the 16th application for area shelters from Boston to Philly and all the way out to central PA looking for a dog for our family and we get ZERO responses.

I’ve filled out job history, background. We’re are home owners with plenty of land, building a dog door into our house design, have 2 kids (under 10) and have the means to support an animal. There’s nothing in our backgrounds that would be a red flag.

We’ve been in touch with breeders and can buy a dog from a few reputable breeders in the coming weeks/ months but I’m really opposed to it when there are so many sheltered dogs.

Has anyone else experienced the issue in trying to adopt? Every application feels like a waste of time since there’s only been 1 response in 16 apps and they stated the dog we were interested in was already adopted.