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    K, so on my way to pick up my kiddo from school, I see this dog walking along the sidewalk, he swaying side to side, panting heavy and limping....So I slow down to kind of check him out and I see he's a pit bull. Now I am not one of those people who believes that all Pit Bulls are bad dogs, but I do believe that MANY people buy pit bulls to turn them into bad dogs, so I'm being cautious here.

    Suddenly the dog veers off the sidewalk right in front of my car. I brake, get out and he's laying in the road in front of my car! Just laying there! (no, I didn't hit him, he was about 5 feet away).

    My car door is still open and I kind of squat/kneel and call to him real sweet. He gets up, walks over to me, past me,and jumps into my car! Oooookay, now what?

    I lean into the car, the doggy kives me massive slobbery doggy kisses and I'm trying to read his tag. No tag, just a very tattered cute plaid collar with little silver hearts all over it. But the collar is virtually shredded at this point, and the dog is obviously dehydrated, and his hind foot is bleeding on my car seat. I say 'sit'. he sits....

    Long story getting short. I take the doggy home, he eats all of my dog's toys (in 45 minutes!) and knocks down my doggy door. I have called animal control and they say they can't come till tomorrow! I go to take him to the animal control shelter.....oh my god. I couldn't leave him there! I couldn't!!! It was death row for furry critters! and I barely made it out of there without bawling!

    I call around and FINALLY find a no kill shelter who will take him (because he's a pitt no one would take him!) I drop him off, with lots of slobbery wet kisses, and am keeping my fingers crossed for him.

    *Side note. I am totally miserable about what I saw at the Animal Control Center...... Some one tie me down to keep me from saving all those lil guys on death row!




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    ^^ you could have also called some pit bull rescues.
    Thats soo sad. He was obviously dropped off by someone. He saw your car and thought he was going home. So sad. Why do people do these things?

    At the humane society back in PA where I used to live, there woudl always be tons of dogs and cats running around outside. Peopel woudl take them near the shelter, but to lazy to actually take them inside, and would just drop them off outside. So sad.

    I once adopted a BEAUTIFUL dalmation from the side of the road. He had no tags, no collar, skin and bones, just runnign alogn the side of the road, in the country. He was obviously dropped off. He was the sweetest animal ever.

    People are such morons sometimes.

    I think the worst thing I ever saw was once, I was in the woods, walking along a creek, and I hear meowing. I looked around, and saw a bloody bag. In it was a cat wtih her head bashed in and a few dead kittens. I head meowing tho, So I looked around, and found 2 baby kittens hanging on a branch in the water of the creek. They were only abotu 2 weeks old.
    I took them home and nursed them with a bottle every 4 hours, all day and all night. I took them to work with me every day to feed them. I put a tiny litter box on my headboard so they could sleep in bed with me, and still go potty, cause they were to tiny to get in and out of the bed alone.They grew up to healthy, happy cats and I got them spayed and found good homes for them.
    SOme ASSHOLE dumped them at the river and beat in mama cats head. ALl becuase they were to damn irresponsible to get their cat spayed and couldnt deal with babies. I wish that person rots in hell.

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    Bless you for trying to save the poor thing.

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    Aw, this story should be made into a short film for the Humane Society, it's so cute.
    It's good you did this. You're a good person.

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    Poor doggie. Thank you for picking him up!!

    My mom always does stuff like that (and Dottie's story too) and when I was little it used to embarass me. But I'm so proud of her for doing it, even though it hurt her to see the animals so hurt. She would get anything out of the road, birds, rabbits, dogs, cats...
    Even if this is the last dog you saved, teaching this type of kindness to your kids is neverending. Thank you for making this world a little bit better.



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    You did a great thing though by stopping and helping the poor baby. This thread depresses me I'm gonna go cry now. But really...you're a great person. I think that someone that takes the time out of their day to assist a helpless being is a good person.

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    I second everything that was said.
    I'm all about paying it forward and random acts of kindness!
    Thank you for helping something that couldnt help itself
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    as a veterinary technician, i'm constantly amazed and appalled by the level of cruelty some people can inflict on animals...it's nice to hear that there are still some good people out there...

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    I applaud you ExoticEngineer. Sometimes I really hate people. Like why? Would it be that hard to drive the animal to a shelter? Would it waste so much of your precious time? I mean, you obviously took the time to bring the animal to a non-kill shelter. Why can't more people be like you?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kaylinn View Post

    SOme ASSHOLE dumped them at the river and beat in mama cats head. ALl becuase they were to damn irresponsible to get their cat spayed and couldnt deal with babies. I wish that person rots in hell.
    Wow. That's sick. But it made me think of something a boy told my 12 year old cousin. Her family had a cat they couldn't keep so the boy suggested they kill it. Not take it to a shelter or give it away, just KILL IT. WTF! They ended up giving it to another member of their family.

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    Yay, yay, yay!!! GOOD FOR YOU!!!

    He sounds like a funny little guy.

    I'm probably in the minority here, but I have an issue with no-kill shelters. In theory they are great (and hopefully this one was!) but in practice they are often useless because they're always all filled up and won't accept new animals and they often keep animals living in tiny cages for months or years rather than humanely euthanize them. The animals can literally go crazy if they live like this for very long The people who run these types of shelters mean well, but their hearts are often bigger than their heads, unfortunately.

    But again, hopefully this was one the good doggie joints

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    Good for you, ma'am for being so compassionate. I know the last few times I have been to the SPCA/Humane Society around here, literally 70% of the dogs were Pits, or some variation thereof. It kinda blew my mind. A woman I know who works there told me "If it's big, black and/or a pitbull, it's not getting adopted". I like the idea of a no-kill shelter, but will agree with Miss DottieRebel about the logistics of it. Anyway, once again ExoticEngineer...you rock.
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    So, to update.

    I called a girl from work who absolutely despises me! (another story) I got her number from the house mom, the thing is, she has four Pitts right now....she's really into them and is even in some "We love our Pitts" group.
    So I did a little networking and I found someone who is going to go down and adopt the big lug! Yay!!!!!

    I had his ID number from the shelter and thsi couple is going down today to get him!!! I'm so happy!

    I had bad dreams liast night though about what I saw at the Animal Control shelter. I hugged my doggy all night last night and even let him sleep in bed with me, and my cat jsut did his usual "I own your pillow" routine, but I let him get away with it last night. Those poor poor animals there! So many of them!

    I need to make tons and tons of money and then buy some land somewhere and let them all come play and live with me!

    (Hehehe, and little mice will make my clothes and the birds will help me do dishes! )




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    Ugh, people disgust me.
    Thank god for girls like y'all! You are humanity's saving grace!

    (The only story I have similar to that is a three year old cat wandered into my backyard. Toby's 11 now. ^^)

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    Quote Originally Posted by MrChristopher View Post
    Good for you, ma'am for being so compassionate. I know the last few times I have been to the SPCA/Humane Society around here, literally 70% of the dogs were Pits, or some variation thereof. It kinda blew my mind. A woman I know who works there told me "If it's big, black and/or a pitbull, it's not getting adopted". I like the idea of a no-kill shelter, but will agree with Miss DottieRebel about the logistics of it. Anyway, once again ExoticEngineer...you rock.
    Yeah, one of my shelter memories is of a big friendly Rottweiler that I couldn't adopt (we had the maximum allowed # of pets for a city dwelling & even they were too much to handle)...I felt horrible. He probably got put down & I'll never forget how he started bouncing up and down in the enclosure when I saw him. Damn f*cking cruel world.

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    I am a sucker for animals too. I am so glad to hear that this dog was helped and now has a home! I would love to volunteer at my local shelter, but I know for a fact I would start bringing more animals home. I can't stand to see an animal suffer either. I know when I am old and close to senility, I will be that lady with 100 cats/dogs!

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    Wow...what a great story. Good for you for taking your responsibility all the way

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    a cat once ran out in front of me from a roadside drain and i saw it roll out from under my car. i stopped and managed to collect it but it was the most scared i have ever seen a cat in my life and the most beautiful (dont tell my own cats). this was late at night and i had to take it to a 24hr vet who had to giv it TWO sedative injections cos it was so freaked out. the poor cat had dislocated a back leg and fractured his hip and it would have cost way more than i could afford to fix him so we had to put him down. i cried my heart out and felt absolutely terrible. im definately going to hell for that
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    ^^^You're not going to hell. You'd have gone to hell if you kept driving. I've found so many dying animals on the side of the road and taken them to get euthanized. It makes me want to kill people. Why anyone doesn't help end the suffering of an animal they almost killed is beyond me completely.

    Animals get hit by cars. It is horrible, but almost unavoidable. The only thing you can do is be a decent human being, take some time out of your day to stop your freaking car, and take the animal to get euthanized.

    You rock, Fox!!!

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    Awww, I love this story! You're amazing for doing that for the little guy

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    This makes me think of when I lived in a bad neighborhood, and I'd see all these idiotic label conscious thugs walking their vicious pit bulls around. Having a "badass" protection dog was a sort of status symbol.
    I just knew these dogs were going to get put down for biting somebody, or neglected and left for dead somewhere because asshole had different priorities.

    My friend adopted a pit who was raised by violent neo-nazis. He wanted to give her a good home. In the few months she was living with him in his apartment, she chewed the molding off the bottoms of 2 or 3 door frames inside the house, killed his neighbor's cat, attacked his girlfriend and would not let anybody in the house without him having to restrain her. He had to give her up. She is probably dead now. What is sad is that these dogs are really amazing and fantastic companions if you treat them properly. Sadly, so many people think of them as objects and will get rid of an animal as soon as it's not a cute puppy or kitten age anymore.

    I absolutely despise people who hurt animals. It is our job as humans to protect them, not abuse them. You totally did the right thing, EE.

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    I'm glad you found a no kill shelter. at least he'd have achange of finding a home with them. a reg animal shelter would've put him down within a week...most city shelters dont adopt out pit bulls....no matter how loving they are. i got my doggie from a no kill shelter.she ws abandoned as a puppy and had really bad mange....i think she was about a year old when i adopted her; i couldnt have asked for a better pet.

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    You just made me so sad.

    I picked up a dog 2 years ago that was wandering in the middle of the street with a little bandana on but no collar or anything. It was the cutest little thing, we called him stinky. He had fleas and smelled awful, but he had clearly been a house dog. At the time, I couldn't have dogs in my building.

    A friend of a friend took him in. The girl took him to the vet and it turned out he had epilepsy...but he lives in a good home. Oh he was so sweet.

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