Pandora's Box

So you probably already heard about the pit bull mauling that happened in San Francisco about a week ago. The aftermath has been harder and harder on my beloved C. She works at an animal shelter in the Bay area, thus she works with lots of pits. Since this incident, she has seen a large number of people dropping off their misbehaving pit bull pets to the shelter. This is good, on the one hand. If they are likely to be as unstable as Rex and Ella, that is. But some of these are sweet animals who people are dropping off. Because of the stricter guidelines for pits at the shelters that have been put into place since the mauling, all of these dogs are being put down. C assesses the dogs' behavior to see if they may be good pets, so she interacts with each of these dogs before they are inevitably put down. I wish these people would take their misbehaving pit bulls to the vet to be put down rather than send my darling C home from work in tears every day.

The issue is really about bad breeding practices and the need for pets to be spayed or neutered. So please... spay or neuter your pets!