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One of the dogs we rescued and adopted from the Humane Society is a mix breed Pitbull and Australian Cattle Dog, a wonderful baby we are so much in love with,
his name is Ritchie, we adopted him when he was about 2 months old, he was adopted before and was returned to the Humane Society by his ex-owners due to the following reason:
this puppy is peeing on the floor and we do not want to clean after him
we fell in love with him the moment we saw him, he was standing on his back paws in the cage, a little tiny baby, was looking up at us and waging his little tale, asking -
"are you my papa and mama? will you take me home?"
when we brought him home, we found out he had bad problems with his digestion, he had bad skin problems, he was not taken care of at all, he was scared of everyone,
growling at everything he saw, he was hiding and crying all the time.. what did they do to that little baby?! it took us long time and
a lot of effort to make him feel better, to make him feel safe and loved, to help him forget the abuse and violance
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something about humans
• Wisconsin’s Leonard Kritz received time served for chopping the heads off three cockatiels, a conure, a chinchilla, a python, a boa constrictor, and another
snake, after his wife told him that she had had an abortion. Kritz used a World War II bayonet to decapitate the animals and claimed that he did so in order to
“teach his wife about the sanctity of life.”
• After Melissa Davis of Ocala, Fla., moved in with a friend because her husband repeatedly beat her, he found her and threatened to kill her dogs unless
she came home. Davis refused and was presented with the head of her 4-month-old puppy later that day.
• Before Rev. Javan M. McBurrows of Pennsylvania was charged with beating to death a 4-year-old boy, he had been found guilty of two counts of cruelty to
animals for mistreating two dogs and convicted of choking his wife, who testified that McBurrows had beaten all eight children living in their house. in the
back of the house, police found a neglected dog who was confined to a pen, malnourished, and covered with sores.
• Guillermo Lerma of Edinburg, Texas, who is serving a life sentence for killing his girlfriend’s 2-year-old daughter, decapitated a live puppy in front of a
different girlfriend’s children, warning that he would decapitate them as well if they told their mother.
• Rebecca M. Byrd of Brunswick, Maine, was charged with beating her two children, breaking nine bones in her 4-month-old daughter’s body, and punching her son’s head.
Shortly before her arrest for these crimes, Byrd’s dog was found dead at the end of a chain tied to an oil tank, left to starve to death with no protection
from the elements.
something about pets
Between 11/02 - 10/05 over 1,070 of the cats and dogs were adopted and then brought back (returned by their owners) to the Town Lake Animal Center
(TLAC - the kill facility in Austin, TX). More than 75% were returned within a year from being adopted, average adoption time being 3 months.
Over 40% of these dogs and cats were then killed at the TLAC in Austin, TX
here are a few examples of those returns:
| 3 months Male |
Labrador Retriever mix |
Adopted 5/17/05
Returned 6/7/05 |
Return Reason: Aggressive puppy |
Final Status: D Destroyed 6/9/05 |
| 2 years, 3 months Male |
Labrador Retriever and Pit Bull mix |
Adopted 6/6/05
Returned 6/6/05 |
Return Reason: Too hyper in car |
Final Status: D Destroyed 6/12/05 |
| 8 years Female |
Himalayan seal point mix cat |
Adopted 6/8/05
Returned 6/15/05 |
Return Reason: Cat is terminally ill |
Final Status: D Destroyed 6/15/05 |
| 2 years, 10 months Female |
Golden Retriever and Chow Chow |
Adopted 2/11/04
Given away 6/1/05
Stray 6/2/05 |
Return Reason: New owner not reclaiming |
Final Status: D Destroyed 6/06/05 Time/Space |
| 7 years Male |
Basset Hound mix |
Adopted 1999
Returned 5/23/05 |
Return Reason: No time |
Final Status: D Destroyed 6/2/05 Time Space |
| 7 yr Female |
Domestic Shorthair mix cat |
Adopted March 2002
Returned 6/3/05 |
Return Reason: Litterbox problems |
Final Status: D Destroyed 6/4/05 |
| 1 year, 1 month Male |
Chihuahua - Smooth Coated mix |
Adopted 5/28/05
Returned 6/2/05 |
Return Reason: Owner stated that dog attacked another dog |
Final Status: D Destroyed 6/4/05 |
| 10 months Male |
Pointer mix |
Adopted 9/13/04
Returned 5/28/05
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Return Reason: Unpredictable |
Final Status: D Destroyed 5/30/05 |
we could continue this list on and on, but we hope you got the idea? read the field Return Reason, check the dates of adoption and return! Some people have the nerve
to return a pet they owned for 6 years, because they do not have time! Some people have the nerve to return a cat they owned for a few days because a cat was sick...
Do we still call ourselves humans?
so who is actually the problem: pitbulls or irresponsible pets owners?
there were about 4,111 pets returned and/or not adopted? and euthanized in CT in 1999-2000.
Idaho Falls Animal Control Statistics, 1995 - Dogs Destroyed 1152, Cats Destroyed 743 and again the pets who were returned and/or not adopted...
and we are not talking about Pitbulls, ladies and gents, we are talking about all breeds, people return poodels and labs, retrivers and pointers...
so is there truly a problem with Pit bulls or dobermans or rottweilers or may be there is a problem with the people who own them and with the government
authorities who do not understand where the problem is and what actions should be taken?
BAD RAP - a pit bull rescue in California estimates that up to 20,000 pit bulls are destroyed in SF Bay Area
shelters every year. Number of pit bulls BR is able to save each year: 40-50.
BAD RAP states "Pit bull puppies are popular, desirable and easy to sell. But pit bulls are a tough breed
to own and not every home is really prepared to keep its dog for life. That once-cute pup becomes much more work as it matures into its adult size and strength,
and homes give up on pit bulls all the time. It may get into its first accidental fight, landlords may evict it, it might become hard to control due to lack
of training, it may escape its yard. Many of the cute pit bull puppies sold today will end up in shelters before their second birthday. But before they go,
chances are great that these same dogs will breed one or two litters of their own...Next season's shelter dogs. And the tragic cycle continues....
and here is the easiest way for US authorities to break the cycle - Ban Pit Bulls
Ginny Bazelak of Chepachet, R.I., president of the American Pit Bull Terrier Club of New England, feels the same way about the dogs that she has bred.
"They say pit bulls have natural aggressiveness," she says. "I don't believe it. People who are breeding for aggressiveness will get it.
For the last 12 years I haven't been, and these dogs aren't. My dogs are babies. They'll lick you to death. The people who fight dogs tell me I'm ruining the breed.
They say my dogs are wimps." Sadly it is the responsible owners and breeders who are suffering the most from the recent wave of pit bull hysteria.
"You feel like a criminal walking your dog," says Bazelak. "You're constantly approached by someone who says, 'That's a vicious dog,' as if it's a wild animal.
I've stopped breeding mine. I don't want to add to the population right now. I'm disgusted with the American people who believe the problem's with the dog and
not with the people raising the dog
We and our dogs did not break any rules, we did not fight, we did not bite - why should we suffer because the government can not find a way to deal with
people who organize dog fights, why should we all suffer because there are some sick bastards whose place is in prison decided that pit bulls are a perfect
subject for their sick games?
Andy Johnson of the UKC says "we have got a bunch of kooks out there who are getting these dogs and making them mean. Every time somebody writes how mean these
dogs are, the demand for them jumps up. You can make any dog mean if you work at it. Now dogfighting is, by most accounts, more widespread than ever in the U.S.
At the same time it is even less humane, having passed from the hands of the old-time "gentlemen" breeders into the mitts of the borderline sadists.
Once primarily a rural dementia, dogfighting has become a city problem as well, the outgrowth of the popularity of pit bulls"
So criminals continue to breed .. while there are thousands of friendly family pets are put to sleep all over the country ...
I am Stasya, one of the creators of this site and ourpitbulls.com, I am a russian girl who married american guy and moved to states 4 years back, back in Russia,
I have American Staffordshire Terrier, a 9 y.o. girl , when my girl was about 1 y.o. we had a neighbor, mentally sick guy, who owned a pit bull, also a girl, with tears in my eyes and feeling of frustration and pain,
we have watched him turning that beautiful dog into a monster. He did not feed his dog for a few weeks, getting her ready for a fight, she was on a chain all the time
except of the "training time". When I first saw her, she was a waging smiling happy puppy... in a while after constant starving, training, abuse, she turned into
a beast... in a year, she lost a fight. Her owner left her dying outside the city, we could not save her, we came too late
I was proud to be Russian by birth and American by heart... now I am simply proud to be a Pit Bull owner...
Punish the Deed, Do Not Punish responsible dog owners and our well-behaved dogs
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