Comments on: Dog Breed Profiling Results In Pit Bulls Euthanized At Texas Animal Shelter

By: Angela

Angela — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:32:13 +0000

I have been an animal lover my entire life and have had a wide variety of canine breeds as a part of my family. One thing is obvious to the educated canine owner, it matters not what breed of dog; rather, the manner in which YOU (THE OWNER) train and raise the canine. The latest addition to my family; which happens to be a Red Nose Pit Bull, has been the most compassionate, intelligent, and devouted canine I have EVER had the pleasure of having in my life. In fact, the small dogs that have been in my family have always had more of an agressive streak than my loving Pit Bull. Rest assured that Pit Bull owners are getting extremely fed up with the ignorrance of uneducated individuals who throw out accusations because of media propoganda or fabriacted stories on the internet. Luckily, I have the opportunity to be a voice for these amazing animals; as I will be entering an Animal law practice after Law School. I encourage those of you who know the Pit Bull (and other profiled breeds as well) to get involved in Breed Specific Legislation issues. Knowledge is indeed power and educating those who have been misguided or choose not to read more than the negative storied reported is a great way to end the bad rep that Pit Bulls have been given.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:34:01 +0000

I can not believe that these women can be so cruel. I have a Pitbull and she is the most wonderful dog and I will never own another breed. I rescued her and it was the greatest decision of my life. She has helped me in so many ways and I love her more than life. These people are disgusting, and cruel. They dont deserve to work with animals. Maybe the law should be stepping in to change their ignorant policy. Or why dont they send the Pitbulls up north? They do not get put to sleep automatically. Most shelters will keep a dog until they get adopted. My own Pitbull was in a shelter for a month before I adopted her.

By: JOANN

JOANN — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:39:51 +0000

I use to be scared of pit bulls, until one was given to me as a puppy. She was the best thing that Life ever gave me. She was my friend, and she loved me more than any other dog possibly could. Everyone told me she would turn on me, being uneducated I took her to the pound after 6years and they automatically put her to sleep. The next day I couldnt live with out her, I went to get her and she was put to sleep. I thought they would find a home for her, I didnt realize it was an immediate death. It’s the only regret I have in life. She was a great dog, and anyone would of loved her if they knew dogs. I didnt then, and im heart broken now. Their dogs, there is no difference. They are full of love. They dont deserve to die.

By: Kansas City

Kansas City — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:02:08 +0000

Gail Johnson and Judy Hallmark need to take a 6 week dog training & behavioral course at National K-9 in Gahanna Ohio and learn something about dogs. Call Cesar Millan and spend a week with him. The stupidity and ignorance here is unreal. So the idiot used to let pig hunters take the dogs…….?????????????? Does she have any idea what that is all about? The hunters are encouraging and bringing out thier aggression.
How do uneducated people like this get into a job like that? I say lets take a vote to Euthanize these 2 very ignorant HATEFULL women!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:09:33 +0000

According the your website it is people like Gail Johnson, president of the humane society and Judy Hallmark, director of Erath County Humane Society are obviously extremely ignorant of the breed. This is cleary of form of serious discrimination. Our govenment says it is illegal to discriminate and what this county is doing is sheer discrimination and is wrong. I think Erath county and the people who run the shelter need a better education. I wonder how many of them have college degrees? Any professional degrees? I doubt it. I also wonder how many of them have a heart? None. Sad. Do not move to Erath county. They should be ashamed and embarrassed by their lack of knowledge. Go find a job you know something about. This county and these people are a disgrace to our society. Go discriminate against a human who is able to speak out and protect themselves. People like this are a discrace to our society.

By: kitty000

kitty000 — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:58:28 +0000

I am a shelter worker and there are many of you who howl about breed profiling and name call, etc., without having true experience other than the dog in your backyard. My personal experience is that we generally take in about 100 animals every day, and up to 20 of those are pit bulls. We are one of the few that do adopt out pits, but there aren’t many that are tempermentally sound enough to be eligible. They aren’t bad dogs. But the truth is, if u take a dog that has a predisposition to be aggressive and mix it with an owner who is not prepared to handle it, what you get is a dog that is unpredictable. Like it or not…that is a fact…do a little research, why don’t you? Check the statistics at the cdc. There are many factors that come into play to make up the temperment of a dog, that is undeniable, but an unpredictable animal is a liability for a shelter. If you want to save the pit bulls…be willing to take them home yourself and be a supporter of spaying and neutering to control the overbreeding of this and every other breed.

By: Lee

Lee — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:21:31 +0000

We all need to raise awareness about this breed profiling. Call your local city hall and ask to speak with the mayor and demand that these policys be canged. Call your local paper and news stations and ask them to cover the story. People need to be aware of this otherwise no change will take place. I just rescued a 3 month old pittbull from the Rochester, NY animal control center that has the same policy, it took one creative story to get “patch” out of there alive. 2 and 3 month old pitbull puppies being destroyed with not even a chance of adoption. Take action today and make a phone call to save these great dogs!!

By: Kathy

Kathy — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:26:26 +0000

My son was recently mauled by our family pet who we raised from a puppy. I always thought that it was in the way they were raised. We raised this dog with nothing but love. I will never own a pitt bull again and I would encourage anyone who thinks their children are safe to please be very careful. You can not know the pain we have been through and I hope that you never have to.

By: lanne

lanne — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:03:35 +0000

i own 2 pits and they were from a shelter. they put my kids to sleep at night for goodness sake. 1 sleeps in bed with my 9 yr old. the older pit i am sure was abused. while he is protective of our home in that he barks, once you walk in the gate he just wanted to be petted and hugged. if they had killed either of these pits just bc of the breed, our family would never have had these lovable dogs in our lives. it has changed my mind forever with regard to the breed. it is a shame a shelter would be so naive. wake up!!!

By: lanne

lanne — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:01:13 +0000

i own 2 pits and they were from a shelter. they put my kids to sleep at night for goodness sake. 1 sleeps in bed with my 9 yr old. the older pit i am sure was abused. he is protective of our home in that he barks, but loves strangers and wants to be pet all the time. he lifts his paw all the time to be pet. if they had killed him, our family would never have had this lovable pet in our lives. it has changed my mind forever with regard to pitbulls. it is a shame a shelter would be so naive. wake up!!!

By: brian

brian — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:14:09 +0000

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By: denice berard

denice berard — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:32:30 +0000

All my life, I have been raised around Pit Bulls, because they truly are “a man’s best friend”. They are extremely loyal and trainable. People are out there every second of every day mistreating these dogs, and then you add to it by mercilessly killing them. Instead of being prejudice and killing Indians and Blacks for the color of there skin, you prejudicially kill dogs based on breed and that is a disgrace. You can not be humane, doing such an inhumane deed.
Next time you kill a Pit Bull, you are crucifying it for the acts of humans. Dogs only do what they are trained and conditioned to do. Why doesn’t your organization do a humane act and inform the public (or have workshops) on the proper etiquette when handling a Pit Bull and only allow them to be adopted after the individual has positively passed the course and proved themselves capable of owning a Pit. Then you can truly call yourselves a Human Society.
- denice berard

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By: rachel_1357@yahoo.com

rachel_1357@yahoo.com — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:23:55 +0000

I’ll admit not all pits are perfect, but what breed of dog is perfect? Ignorance, thats all this is.

By: mountaink9

mountaink9 — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:51:00 +0000

I have a solution ,lets start using euthanasia to get rid of some these selfish, stupid people it will leave better homes for these help less animals and less politicians for us