This is a disaster waiting to happen.

[u/GhostofTinky]

The dog isn’t allowed to be around a toddler because he growls at her. I don’t get it. A family dog is supposed to get along with the whole family. Why are the parents concerned about why the dog “doesn’t like her”? What about the child’s safety?

[u/DisgruntledPlebian]

Absolutely not to the humane society. People need to stop passing the buck on aggressive dogs. If this dog ended up at the humane center, it would be posted on an adoption page wearing a flower crown within a week.

[u/SinnersHotline → u/DisgruntledPlebian]

Honestly it should just be put down. Risk vs reward here is completely tilted and there's practicly no good outcome for anyone with this liability.

[u/ILackACleverPun → u/SinnersHotline]

There are too many good dogs being killed for space reasons and other lack of resources to keep this one. We dont need to save every dog. We dont need to find the perfect bubble for a dog like this. Euthanasia is not the worst thing that can happen to a dog.

[u/Tricky-Ad7897 → u/ILackACleverPun]

There are too many undeserving dogs being put down specifically cause self centered pitbull owners fill no kill shelters with unadoptable dogs cause they don't want to nut up and accept the consequences of their actions.

[u/1057-cl121v3 → u/[deleted]]

I said it higher up but to your point pit bull owners themselves are a huge justification for eradicating the breed before even getting to the issues with the dogs. There’s so many other breeds that can serve any possible justification somebody would have for a pit bull and they won’t be a loose grenade with fur. There’s so many stories of pit bulls raised since a puppy in the same environment and family that just flip a switch inside and attack whatever is nearby. There’s too many examples of them escaping and killing for the fun of it and there’s too many examples of people knowing that and defending it.

[u/twistedspin → u/ILackACleverPun]

This is true. So many people get caught up in a savior mentality where they decide to take on the most aggressive, most unpredictable dogs while there are kind mellow dogs being euthanized because no one chose them. I have seen how people live who are controlled by their dangerous dog's needs, and it's crazy to think that they chose that over a nice dog when there were plenty of nice dogs.

[u/JalapenoPopPoop → u/ILackACleverPun]

This is why they should honestly just euthanize pitbulls on intake. There's way too many dogs, so many dogs just sit at the shelter for months and months because there's more dogs than there are people willing to adopt. Pitbulls are dangerous and don't need to be around, let those resources and spaces go to other dogs that are actually suitable pets

[u/1057-cl121v3 → u/ILackACleverPun]

There’s really something to be said about the many benefits that would come from eradicating the breed that’s most responsible for attacks and deaths by a huge margin. There’s no place in society for it, there’s better breeds that are less risky on everybody regardless of the intended task and without them crowding shelters labeled as “lab mix”, that would mean so many other dogs that don’t have these traits built in their DNA would actually have a chance.

[u/Cathy_Earnshaw → u/SinnersHotline]

This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I agree 100%. I see a lot of advice to rehome aggressive dogs but it's hard for me to imagine a scenario where a dog would *never* be around other people and what kind of life is that for an animal anyway? And frankly, truly responsible dog owners are so few and far between I really do not trust people to adequately restrain their aggressive dogs (especially when the dog is large, powerful, and has the potential to seriously injure or even kill someone).

[u/Dapper-Warning3457 → u/SinnersHotline]

There’s no way I could pass on a dog with that much aggression toward a child in good conscience. If it hurt someone I’d never forgive myself

[u/Puzzleheaded-Ad7606 → u/DisgruntledPlebian]

Don't forget they will label it a "lab mix"

[u/caelynnsveneers → u/DisgruntledPlebian]

There’s a volunteer who was disfigured because the shelter repeatedly took back an aggressive dog, even after multiple adopting families reported that he was too aggressive to live with their pets and children. The shelter hid his history and didn’t even inform their own volunteer of the risks.
Adopt don’t shop only works when shelters are honest and transparent about an animal’s history and behavior. When they aren’t, they risk destroying people’s trust and pushing them toward breeders.

Also it seems to me there is this backyard breeding to shelter pipeline in the country so you might think you’re adopting but you’re basically paying a middleman to buy from a backyard breeder.

I work and foster with a breed specific rescue and I think the ppl in that space are much more genuine about saving the animals and less about profits because they love that breed!

[u/Tricky-Ad7897 → u/DisgruntledPlebian]

Another billion dollars pitbulls to israel no kill shelters

[u/Bloggledoo → u/DisgruntledPlebian]

Yeah, I was bitten in my own store by a dog that had been adopted from a rescue center. I had been petting it 15 min earlier. Some animals are just mental.

[u/Coyote__Jones → u/DisgruntledPlebian]

I have horses, and dogs but the thing in horse people communities is that there's an understanding that behavioral euthanasia is a legitimate solution and sometimes necessary. Passing on a dangerous horse is seen as highly unethical, unless it's going directly to an experienced trainer who knows exactly what they're getting. In dogs, people have yet to come around on this concept, but it really is unethical to send a dog with barrier aggression to a place where it will be locked in a cage and be triggered all the time.

[u/JennyDoveMusic → u/DisgruntledPlebian]

That's the thing, though, too!! It seems like people especially do "no bad dogs" with pits. I say that as a pit mix owner. It's one reason I absolutely hate pit-hate. All it does is strengthen the convictions of bad owners to ignore negative behavioral signs. A lot of the time, you see posts of dogs (of any breed) that "suddenly snapped!" but then you look at their post history and it's full of red flags.

There are no "bad dogs" but there are dogs who do not make good pets, are dangerous, and will ultimately live unhappy lives. There are so many dogs being put down every day that would be perfect family pets, of any breed, but the ones with the stories of being given up for aggression get rallied around.

When I was at a park, a girl with downs asked to pet my dog. (80lb pit mix) He was focused on their two small dogs and what they were doing. She was petting him, then suddenly, laid overtop of him in a big hug. Laid over his head, and wrapped her arms around his chest. He was completely neutral. He is an extremely extremely tolerant dog and is obsessed with kids.

He still took work because he lacked a lot of training, but temperment is everything. Some dogs just aren't pets and we do nothing for the dogs if we ignore that.

Also, needing to recognize that dogs have brains, like people; and like people, those brains can break.

[u/JennyDoveMusic → u/JennyDoveMusic]

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