1. The potential client will want to adopt the one puppy in the pen that has already been adopted but is awaiting its new owner to return with a crate.
2. The client will want to adopt the dog that belongs to the off-site coordinator.
3. The client will want to adopt a dog seen in a blurry photo on the Shelter website but which, for some reason we can’t determine, cannot be located at the Shelter or at an Off-site event. This client will become infuriated because he “finally found the dog I wanted” and we’ve deliberately misplaced an animal he has never even met face-to-face.
4. The client will want a puppy “just like the black one,” but in yellow. We will not have any yellow puppies available.
5. The client will insist that the dog in her printed-out photo came from our web site even when another Shelter’s name is listed.
6. The client will adopt a puppy if we can guarantee for certain that it will not bark or chew things up.
7. The client will want to adopt a Yorkie when all we have are labs, pit mixes, cattle dogs and rat terriers.
-*- Artwork from a scan of a vintage children's book.
So terribly true ...
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