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“Do you live in the “Hood”?”

Nope, out in the suburbs.

The local shelter is full of them. I was dropping off a couple of cages to them for donation once and upon walking into the area, I had a Pit desperately trying to get through a kennel wall to attack me. It was just insane. Who in their right mind would adopt something like that especially with kids. You couldn’t even get near the kennel.

Same deal in my suburban area. Overwhelmingly the local folk have nice, suburban dogs, but go to the local animal pounds and they are all full of pitbulls only.

To adopt a more friendly dog, people have to go to the privately-run groups that import strays from the South, Puerto Rico, etc..

Most of the shelters now bring dogs in from the southern US states. Some even bring them in from Mexico and the Caribbean. This has led to cases of rabies in canines again and other diseases that had been eradicated 30+ years ago in US canines. It is similar to the measles outbreak happening now. Almost all shelters are for profit operations. They make a profit by selling dogs and cats. In most places in the US there is not a stray dog problem. This is because most people spay or neuter their pets. This is not true of cats. Therefore, most northern shelters have to bring in dogs from states like AL, MS, MO, AR, etc. Many poor people in these states still do not spay or neuter their pets. The other source for dogs in shelters are the pets that are impulse buys at Pet stores. People buy a dog on a whim without much research or planning. Two weeks later(or six months) they do not want the pet anymore. It is too much work, etc. They can not return it to the pet store. So, off to the shelter it goes. If they had bought it from a breeder like me, we would take the dog back. If it is a short period of time, we would give them their money back. Petco will not.