Good for you for volunteering your time for shelter dogs.
But I think shelters are doing a disservice to their communities by adopting out pit bulls. Below the level of this sort of news story are many lesser incidents with pit bulls that are adopted from shelters and then become aggressive in the home. They may be taken back to the shelter and adopted out again.
Better IMO to limit their circulation in the population and let them be the unfortunate dogs to be euthanized for a generation or two until we have a more benign canine population in general.
It’s a shame when families go to the local pound and find only pit bulls available for adoption.
I have no problem with pit bull owned by responsible owners.
Owners like my neighbor, though, scare the shit outta me. He’s a biker and got the dog to go with the image. At 4 months old, the dog ran onto my property. I am in process of fencing in my yard.
Asked him about the dog and hhe’s keeping him in tact to breed him. The dog has not been socialized beyond his family nor with other dogs. He never walks it. It spends most of the time on the deck barking his head off.
I have 4 dogs now, 2 Belgian Sheepdogs and 2 Border Collies.
I am VERY worried.