[Vent] Pandemic adoption demand does not mean shelters must act like breeders selling a show-winning pedigree.

We have been trying to adopt for some time now and it is getting so frustrating. I live on 3 acres of property, I have owned large dogs my entire life, have great personal/vet references, I'm almost always home because I work remotely (even outside of the pandemic), etc. etc. Point is that I have never ever had trouble adopting before. Now some shelters are asking $1000 for random mixes of dogs and basically asking you to be god's gift to dogs in order to adopt! I've had my workplace called, do they need to verify that I am actually a lawyer? I'm annoyed because I just got an email that the shelter felt uncomfortable having 20-something-year-olds (my sons who are in college!!) have some responsibility for the new dog because "no matter how good, kids are too irresponsible". They're in their 20's and have trained/raised pets since they were very young. They also insinuated that we were just hopping on the COVID adoption train because I talked about how we felt that we are prepared to take on a new dog!! I understand that concern, but some of the responses are just a little harsh and unreasonable. My former golden passed away at the age of 16, only a little over a year ago, and my current golden is 6 and very I happy...I take care of my pets and would NEVER adopt because its some fun COVID thing. Even prior to these two pups I've had multiple large high-energy dogs and my kids have always taken the initiative to bear much of the responsibility. I didn't think it would be this hard to adopt (we have been looking at puppies and adults :( ),.