Bully people caring? Tell me how. Oh, they may fight over the plight of an occasional pit, but only because most bully people like a fight. But bully people cause the overpopulation of pits/bullies to continue, because they resist breed specific solutions to this breed specific crisis. .When they advise “pits make wonderful pets if raised perfectly”, gullible people BUY pit puppies. The result: more pit breeding and more pit overpopulation and therefore, more pit death. If they would actively support mandatory spay/neuter of pits we could begin to make a dent in the million pit deaths at pounds every year, but because of pit mongers, that will not occur. Dead pits is acceptable to them, as pit mongers only truly care about themselves and their ability to breed/acquire own the dog of their choice.

My husband and I volunteer with a multi-breed rescue. We used to accept, foster, and place pit bulls. We almost permanently adopted one delightful girl. We used to think that breed didn’t matter when it comes to BULLY breeds, but we learned the hard way, when sweet, kissy faced pit puppies we adopted out, grew up to suddenly kill their larger, BFF housemate dogs. They were not abused, they simply matured to act like good pits were created to act. Then when several of our foster home dogs were almost killed by their visiting foster dogs, dogs who moments before attacking were “playing well with others”, we began to rethink the “pits are normal/breed doesn’t matter” propaganda. When pit owners call trying to get rid of their pits, pits who suddenly want to kill every other dog on the block, after playing happily with them in the past, we learn from that. And when 2 same house pits suddenly began to become dead game and won’t stop fighting, we learn from that. When I asked this pit owner about his two pits, he explained that he previously owned one pit, but it chewed up his wife so they put that pot to sleep. Now he wants rid of his pair of pits. Why did he kill one pit and then acquire 2 more pits? I asked him. His answer “everyone says what nice dogs pits are, but now I’m done with pits.” Before pits infested our community, we never had a leashed dog killed in public. We never had a home invasion dog murder by a dog who broke/chewed into a house to kill the victim dog. Now, thanks to the pit invasion, these things have occurred in our town and have happened in many communities. Breed does matter. We speak of beagle traits, border collie traits, there ARE bully dog traits. When non-bully dogs we had placed were shredded by the neighbor’s pit bulls while in a public, we learned from that, too. When we receive calls about soon-to-be homeless pits, we cannot offer them any hope. Non-bully dogs we can help through foster home care or referral to other groups: Schnauzer rescue, dachshund rescue, poodle rescue, these groups have space because fewer of these types of dogs are being born because most non-bully dogs are spayed. Not so with bully breeds. Most bullies in our area are not spayed, even tho several groups offer s/n for free to bullies. We cannot make them spay their dogs. Sadly, the bully owners do not care. All the bully rescues are therefore, always FULL, so rarely accept new dogs. They don’t even return the “we gotta get rid of our pits” phone calls or email. We decided we can do enough good placing non-BULLY dogs and do so without risking the limbs and lives of our volunteers and their dogs and their neighbors, too. All dogs can bite but few non-bully breed dismember and kill as “well” as pits and other bully dogs. True, most pits won’t get to kill another dog, but why continue breeding THE dog designed to kill other dogs? Why would anyone who truly cares about dog welfare insist on continuing the dog-aggressive dogs? Pits cannot help themselves. When they are good pits, when they act of centuries of breeding to attack, and don’t stop, dogs suffer, including the pits themselves. Ban pit breeding and sale. The only way to acquire a pit should be the adoption of a spayed/neutered pit from a licensed rescue. This would bring dog fighting to a screeching halt , as they need to breed more pits to continue dog fighting! It would take them decades to create “dead game” dogs from non-bully breeds. Let pits mercifully become extinct. No pit bully person should object, since they insist that all dogs are the same and breed doesn’t matter. PA doesn’t have any BSL, so pits do breed and die like flies and fill our pounds, where they must die by the ton, if only to provide run space for the next swarm of homeless pits. This is obviously acceptable to pit BULLY people, as they refuse to offer or accept any breed specific solutions to this breed specific crisis. It is never the dog’s fault; it is the fault of pit breeders/buyers and pit mongers that pits both disproportionately cause suffering and death AND disproportionately suffer and die, too.