How can I help pit bulls not get euthanized by my humane society?

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Educate all those thugs and toughies who get the dogs in the first place about proper training and care.

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maybe try writing to the mayor, congress, any political person you can find

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I can’t tell you how to get rid of the ban. What you can do is notify local pitbull rescues to help them know so that they can take a look for themselves. Or you could offer to be a transport driver for one of those rescues.

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If I recall people who are responsable for their Pitts do get in trouble also, but normally if the humane society ends up with the dog, something had to have happened and if the dog has agressively attacked then they have to be euthanized. It is not just with pitts. Any dog that a humane society sees as a threat to humans or other animals are normally euthanized unless they are able to do extensive training with the dog to help the agressive behavior.

Unfortanantly there is nothing you can do to change this. The owners get punished and if they have taught agressive ways to their dog that is not reversable there is nothing else you can do. You can’t expect them to put an agressive dog into a home……

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Once its passed, its a whole new fight….to work at preventing any additional ordinances or state legislation in favor or BSL…you can follow the information below from one of my favorite web sites:

One of the most difficult things for those new to fighting BSL is expressing your feelings to the legislators and/or other officials who have proposed it. There are some very important things to remember when communicating with officials:

First and foremost, ALWAYS BE POLITE AND RESPECTFUL in all your communications with officials. Don’t be combative or argumentative regardless of the difference between your point of view and theirs. Our dogs are worth putting your personal feelings of anger aside in order to communicate effectively.

Stick to the facts. Try to avoid being emotional. It is a given that you love your dogs or you wouldn’t be fighting for them. The simple truth is, the officials do not care how much we love our dogs — they care about the safety of their constituents and their community. To that end, the facts related to the inefficiency of breed specific legislation and the integral part that irresponsible owners play in dog attacks are important facts to get across to them.

Money talks. One thing that always catches the ear of officials is cost. Reinforce the fact that breed specific laws cost a lot of money – additional animal control, shelters fees, vetting, litigation, etc. The bottom line is simple… BSL costs tax payers A LOT of money!

Breed identification. Another important flaw with breed specific laws is breed identification. There are a minimum of twenty-five (25) breeds that possess the physical traits of ‘pit bulls.’ Breed identification by animal control officers is subjective and, therefore, opens the city up to a liability issues in the event of mistaken identification. The “Find the Pit Bull” game is an excellent tool to demonstrate the difficulty of identifying ‘pit bulls.”

General letter writing tips:
It is not necessary to type your letter. In fact, a handwritten letter has a tremendous impact. (As long as its legible!) Even a postcard is fine, as long as it’s nott the pre-printed “form” card.
Be brief and to the point. Try to limit your letter to one or two subjects. Include all bill titles and numbers whenever possible.
Send your letter as soon as you hear about an issue or bill. If it comes up again later in the session, you can always write again or make a phone call.
During the legislative session, send letters to the State Capitol building. During the interim, send letters to the legislators’ home addresses.

Below are some form letters (ranging from very simple to quite detailed) which oppose BSL that you can modify to fit your current situation and send to officials.

In attempting to reverse these ordinances and laws — it takes alot more work….more than signing petitions, letters and the like.

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Our shelter does that too. They adopt other breeds of dogs EXCEPT pit bulls. They often end up being euthanized due to lack of interest by the public.

You could possibly contact some pit bull rescues so they could rescue the dogs.

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refer them to a rescue!
and I would get people to sign a petition

and do anything that you can to educate the people who passed the ban

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I love pit bulls! I just don’t understand why people think they are such bad dogs. They aren’t, its how you raise them that makes them good or bad. But Humane Societys do this to any kind of animal if nobody wants it they’ll just kill it. But yeah I’d just get them out of there and get them to a rescue. Or have a bunch of people sign a petition saying don’t do it, maybe that will help.

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Once they are in a shelter there is little that you can do. Most of the current pitt bull policies are actually the result of the insurance companies.
This means that intervention must take place before the dogs get there.

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Do something about the source of the problem.

The problem is all the dog fighters and breeders in the area that are breeding lots of these dogs and hurting them and dumping them.

Until that problem gets solved, things will never get better for pit bulls.

It’s not the humane society’s fault.

And the pit bull rescues are full because the dog fighters are breeding so many of these dogs. They can’t take any more. If they say they can, they may well be hoarders or dog fighters getting dogs to abuse.

Here is a “sanctuary” that people gave pit bulls to because they thought they were saving them. Look at what this “sanctuary” did to these pit bulls. This has happened over and over again.

Get involved in getting better laws passed to deal with the dog fighters and breeders, and then you will help pit bulls.

The pit bull fighters and breeders oppose legislation because they want to keep overbreeding and hurting these dogs. Don’t let them.