Colt Gone Wild!

After a lot of thought and discussion, my husband and I made the decision to add another dog to our family. We began the search for our new addition at local animal shelters, dog rescue organizations, and OF COURSE Petfinder.com. We knew this one had to be another Doberman, so when our local Doberman rescue contacted us regarding a neutered albino male we started to get excited. I arranged to have the organization representative come by for a home check on the weekend.
Saturday afternoon, the day of the home visit, arrived quickly. I had the house perfectly clean and Colt and Tyson tired from an outing at the off-leash park. We were totally prepared for a home review, or so I thought. I put the dogs in the backyard before the knock at the door so our visitors would not get trampled upon entering the house. I allowed the Doberman Rescue representative and her husband into the living room and then let Tyson and Colt in from the backyard. Everything went downhill from there.
Colt, usually friendly and somewhat loud when guests come over, went NUTS! His hackles went up, he crouched into a lunge-type stance, began showing his teeth, and started barking his head off at the woman's husband. Colt is normally a great watch dog, but I had never seen him react to someone like this before. I tackled him and wrestled him upstairs to put him in his crate, while apologizing profusely to our guests.
I made it to the top of the stairs and thought I had him under control when all of the sudden he body slammed me into the wall and wrenched free of my hold on his collar. He took off back down the stairs and went after the man again! I caught him a second time and successfully got him up the stairs and into the crate. Colt would not stop barking and attacking his crate trying to break free and go after this man. Since I had never seen him respond to anyone, human or animal, in this manner I asked the man to step outside. I have faith in our dog and I truly believe he sensed something amiss with this person.
At this point I figured the home visit was over, we failed miserably, and lost our chances of adopting a Doberman from the rescue. The rescue organizations look for owners that will enhance the reputation of the breed, not ones that encourage attack/ guard type behavior like Colt was displaying.
The representative, surprisingly, was completely understanding and completed our home visit. She took a tour of the house and the backyard. She also quizzed me on my breed knowledge. Questions about the health problems typical to albino dogs were covered as well. I assured her we had done our research and were prepared to allow the dog to avoid the sun, wear t-shirts, sunscreen, and doggles as necessary. To my surprise, we passed with flying colors!!
We were ready to make a trip to pick up our albino rescue dog the following day, but I received an email late that Saturday night cancelling our appointment. As it turns out, the rescue organization misread our paperwork initially and thought we had one male and one female dog at home already but upon further review realized we actually have two males. They did not feel that this male dog would fit well in a home with two other males. I could not believe that after enduring the craziness of the afternoon it wasn't going to work out after all. We were so disappointed!