Combat the phobia of Black Dog Syndrome: Adopt a black pet
The myth behind the devil hiding in black dogs
Today is the first day of Black History Month, which usually leads me down a path of trying to scope out more activities to do than I’m already doing the other 11 months in a year. I’m not quite sure how I ended up on a particular Amazon page during my search, but I saw a tank top in pan-African colors with the words “Black Dogs Matter.”
I rolled my eyes with the same energy that I give to mattress sales on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s federal holiday celebration. Some folks will do anything to market their products. Even worse, the username for this tank top has the words “Funny Black Lives Sayings.” In real life though, there’s nothing funny about the Black Lives Matter movement nor black dogs being least likely to be adopted. I’m not laughing.
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According to the American Kennel Club, the Governor of Medina came to the Prophet Mohammed regarding concerns over stray dogs found all over the city. Due to worry about rabies, the original resolution to deal with the strays was to “exterminate” them. But a day later, he changed his mind for two reasons: 1) He felt that because dogs were Allah’s creation, they shouldn’t be killed. 2) He felt that “he who created the race should be the only one to dictate that it should be removed from the earth.”