Jethro and Cole were languishing for month after month in a shelter because: 1) they are black dogs, harder to adopt; and 2)the shelter insisted they had to be adopted together.A long year passed, and then FOACAS found a foster to take both. Cole had an open wound from trying to get out of his prison. We immediately took him to a vet. As we suspected, the dogs were not bonded. They thrived in their freedom and each was adopted to a loving home. Black dogs rock, and they can use all the help we can give them.