Pitbulls :(

[luckies4me]

http://www.registerguard.com/news/20...ion=cityregion

This article was just in my local paper. It makes me sad so many are euthanized each year, but I am happy to see our local shelter is doing the best they can to get them into adoptive homes. I really wish our shelter had more funding. It would save so many lives.

[luvofallhorses]

that is not right that they are making her stay outside because of her being hard to adopt out because she's a pit bull. of course, they are sooo flippin' hard to adopt out! we have had a lot of pitties at the shelter where I volunteer and we have 2 pure pitties and 1 mix now and we have found the others AWESOME homes!! It just takes patience and you cannot save them all, unfortunately. we do home visits and background checks and screen the people real well if they want to adopt a pit bull from us.

[luckies4me]

They didn't make her stay outside. She was just skittish and preferred being out there instead of inside. Just wanted to clarify. The runs are made so they can go back and forth from the inside to the outside, and she just chose to stick outside.

[luvofallhorses]

oh, I see. well, they should have taken her in anyways even though she will be hard to adopt out. it just takes love and patience and a little TLC.

[animal_rescue]

Aww the poor dog needs time, if she wants to stay outside, I would let her rather than stress her out by making her come inside.

We have 3 pit pups, 1 pit mix pup, and 1 adult pit bull at my shelter right now. I believe 3 of them are on hold right now. And Tony this pit bull we had for about 7 months was FINALLY adopted yesterday, the people called us today and said everything was going fine.

[luckies4me]

Like I said, she can go inside if she chooses too. If she chooses not to I see no reason to make her stay inside. That would only make her skittishness worse.

Right now there are about 40 pitbulls there. Yes, it does take love and patience but our shelter does not have the funds to care for these animals for that long unfortunately. We just barely got our shelter back up and running after about a year of not having any animal control services.

[borzoimom]

Like I said, she can go inside if she chooses too. If she chooses not to I see no reason to make her stay inside. That would only make her skittishness worse.

Right now there are about 40 pitbulls there. Yes, it does take love and patience but our shelter does not have the funds to care for these animals for that long unfortunately. We just barely got our shelter back up and running after about a year of not having any animal control services.

Question- is your shelter a pitbull rescue? I am wondering why so many. Our shelter can only hold 50 dogs-( the one closest to me that is of the 3 shelters). They were getting alot of pitbul and pitbull mixes as well- they started to do some research to find the " supply source". The found this lady that was massively breeding whatever, in awful conditions and shut her down. I am afraid several had to be distroyed from them living in those conditions for so many years- but several were placed.
Maybe your shelter could do some research to find out the supply to have so many- unless this is a breed shelter- then never mind my question..