Maricopa County animal shelters face a looming epidemic: their shelters took in 14,000 pit bulls last year, and sixty-eight percent of them never found a home.
The shelters report that thousands of dogs may not find a home and face the risk of euthanasia. Shelter employees say that when potential adopters learn that dog has any sort of a pit bull mix, they become disinterested.
Dr. Rodrigo Silvewith, with Maricopa County Animal Care and Control, believes the dogs end up stranded in shelters due to breed discrimination. Pit Bulls have endured years of biased media reporting, and Animal Care and Control workers are requesting that people stop breeding and purchasing pit bulls if they are not prepared to care for them.
sharing and hope they find good homes.
The numbers are staggering.
Shared!!!!
Reposted on my page. Hopefully it will get forwarded around and we can help them out.
I question that number, that sure seems like a MASSIVE amount of any breed to be in a single county in shelters???
I know people who are avid rescuers who have prejudices against pit bulls. Talk about an uphill battle. So it’s educating one person at a time and saving one dog at a tiime. LWD has shared a number of pit bull stories to counter the bad ones — the good ones do get into the media, especially through bloggers.
All because some people chose to train theirs to be mean and uncontrolable … this sure isn’t fair to those who are normal and caring!!