This Little Pittie Went All The Way Home (Almost)
August 26th, 2008 
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A Saving Shelter Pets volunteer went to Dekalb County Animal Control a couple days ago. She finds it very hard to walk past the pit bulls knowing that it is very hard to find rescues for them. We can only save who we can find a place to go.
A small voice caught her attention. It was coming from the prettiest and wiggliest pit bull she had ever seen. She made little noises seeming to say, “Please come Pet Me!” And so she did.
And this Pit Bull girl, just 6-8 months old was so kissy, the volunteer let her son hang out in the cage with her. The Pittie girl gave her son a face wash. She was so happy to have a visitor. She took this beauty outside to get some good pictures.
She knew it was a long shot, but she just had to ask if there was any way we could help this beauty. You see, what is extra tragic is that the Animal Control is not allowed to adopt Pit Bulls out to local residents. We truly are this girl’s only chance. There is no chance of adoption. That being so, she would be euthanized. We convinced them to give us a chance to take her away from the shelter and give her a chance to live.
The call for help went out, and donors contributed the $250 needed for her spay, other vetting, quarantine, and transportation within an hour or two. Her angels were definitely watching over her that day for the volunteer to hear her cries among all the other dogs, for the shelter to agree, and for those that cared to make her rescue possible.
Her new name is “Blue” and her second chance is about to begin.
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August 27th, 2008 at 10:55 am
She is freaking ADORABLE!!!! Why in the H*LL can they not adopt a pit out to the local community? Who in the bloody blazes made that rule up?!?! Disgusting. If a family can be shown to be ready (and not adopting the pit for the wrong reasons) why shouldn’t they be allowed to adopt?
I’m so glad that Blue got a second chance!!!
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August 27th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Yeah, she is a true sweetheart! She shared a crate with another dog in the car on the way home and they were best friends by the end of the car ride. You couldn’t ask for a nicer girl.
Who makes the rules? Unfortunately “we” do. Not you and I, but the royal we. People don’t pay attention when laws are pushed through, or come to a vote. Sometimes its by town or city and sometimes its countywide. One isolated incident where one person is injured by a free roaming dog can also get people into a fervor and want to ban breeds.
This county pound is in one of those areas where there is breed specific legislation against Pit Bulls.
Breed Specific Legislation is more common than you think, and needs to be fought, as good dogs like this one suffer, as well as other perfectly nice dogs who are either pit bulls, or do not have a drop of pit in their gene pool but someone just “thinks” they look like one. In some areas, AmStaffs and Rottweilers are on the list of banned breeds, too.