What would you do?

    • Gold Top Dog
    I would euthanize. She is always going to have some issues with other dogs no matter what.  There are so many nice Pitties out there needing homes.
    • Gold Top Dog
    As a APBT owner and a huge advocate for the breed it just really sounds like this dog has no place in the world right now. We cant let our emotion get in the way of reality. Sure maybe if you could find some lone man or couple who live out in the middle on nowhere where the dog could live teh rest of its life peacefully and withoutotehr dogs but I wouldnt place this dog in any less of a situation. Not to mention with all the hard work people are doing to help save the breed this dogs actions reflect upon all pit bulls. Yes its sad but the responsible thing is to put the dog at rest, if it were under 6 months and had a chance at rehabilitation then maybe but it dosnt sound hopeful.
    • Silver
    I would say that this is one of those sit down, cry, and hug your own dog, because you know how lucky he is to have a great home with you AND will never have know what this dog has had to go though stories, because you know that there really is not very good chance that anyone would take this dog and that it would have a great life. All the while knowing that it was some irresponcible persons fault for training it to be this way purposely or not purposely and knowing that person will more than likely get anouther dog and the same will happen to that dog or worse. For it is the dog in most cases that has to pay for what the human did. I am sad that such things can happen in the world that we live in today. 
    • Gold Top Dog
    PTS. It's not having a good life and is not responding to humane methods and is too much of a danger.
    • Puppy
    Colleen,
    Sounds similar a case at a shelter I worked at. At the shelter we had a few dogs that were not very good with children. They did not care for the noise and fast movement of children, the unpredictablilty. So we deemed them to go to homes without children or young children. Then a law suit came through in I think OK, where a humane society had adopted out a dog (a Dobe), that had been turned into the shelter due to biting a child/person. The shelter had to keep the dog for a few days to observe. The dog was fine with everyone in the shelter, seemed fine with children and fine with other pets. The dog was adopted out. Guess what, the dog bit three more people, children/adults alike. The new owners sued the humane society for knowing and having documentation that the dog was a bite case. And humane society lost a lot of money in court that day. It made a lot of the shelters look at the dogs they had available for adoption. We put down 10 dogs in one day, all the ones that we had deemed not being good with children. They were really nice dogs, but unpredictable. Even if they went into a home without children, you can encounter a child on the street, in a park, at petsmart. Some people may be knowledgeable enough to know what to do, others may not. It's a liability that shelters are not willing to take. It is very easy for an adoptee to come back on the shelter for not evaluating the dog and placing them accourdingly. I know as the director, I would not let that dog leave the shelter as an adoptable or foster dog. It is a dangerous dog and will eventually kill a dog. Or hurt a person in the act.
    The shelter I was at, we had a policy of not adopting dogs that were fear biters, know bite cases, dog aggressive or people aggressive. There really is not enough homes for these different types of cases. There are not enough people willing and knowledgeable enough to live with these types of dogs. I've have trained a large array of dogs, temperament wise. I will not work or live with a dog that is severely dog or people aggressive.
     
    Kari
    • Gold Top Dog
    What really gets me is how extremely dog aggressive this dog is.  There are a couple of other dogs who are a little dog aggressive, but nothing like this.  The others just prefer dogs not to be in their area, but are usually fine as long as they have their space.  And, none have attacked like this.  The most that has ever happened are minor dominance scuffles.  I have no problem with trying to adopt those dogs out to the right home.  They are not vicious and they are fine with dogs as long as they aren't fed right next to each other or kept in very close quarters together.  But to adopt one out that breaks through fences to attack dogs is not right at all.