Hard to miss the “black dog syndrome” story yesterday, about how it is more difficult for abandoned large, black dogs to find forever homes. It was all over cable television news, national newspapers – and, of course, here on Sit, Stay, Speak!

But SSS! reader TJ told us about a site that has been dealing with black dog discrimination long before the syndrome piece broke. Black Pearl Dogs features inspirational stories about rescues, great pics and good information (like how to take properly exposed photos of your black dog.) Here’s a photo of Big Bobarino, a Black Pearl Dog that was found near death in southern Colorado, locked in a metal box in an alley.

TJ says she put her tribute to her own pup, a near black dog syndrome victim, on the site:
“She was the best, but again, she was a shy, abused and frightened ‘discard’ black lab mix, with big brown imploring eyes, cowering in the back of her cage, on death row when we adopted her, at age two,” TJ wrote us. “Her time was running out and no one had even gone near her run for the two weeks she had been there.” She lived with TJ for 12 years until she passed away last summer.

Do you have a “black dog syndrome” story? Stay and speak!