I volunteer at our local animal shelter and it constantly rains pit bulls. So many of them are sweet and good natured dogs and deserve a good home. that being said, they are overbred and sold for drugs and dog fighting. Because it is prevalent in the “gangster” culture and fear of offending the breeders nothing is done. People like me have to see many of the good ones EU’d when they could make someone a wonderful pet.
RIP to these sweet dogs. Nothing can bring them back and the owner of the pits should be held responsible and these dogs should be EU’d .
The people who abuse these dogs to fight and kill - its more a reflection on them than on the breed.
And you’re right - many of the pit bulls are sweet natured and loving dogs. And for some people they make great pets! They not for every one though.
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.