New Family Members?
The Adopted
OK, not quite. But strange thing, shortly after the Vick post, what shows up on my doorstep? A Pit Bull. Well OK, she didn’t show up on our doorstep so much as she hopped into our 4Runner. Now, she’s cute, friendly, waggy, superplayful and has not one mean bone in her body, but when you’ve never met her before and suddenly you’re face-to-face with a mouth as big as your skull? Yeah, not a great position to find yourself saying ‘hi’ to a Pit.
We made & posted some “Found Dog” flyers around our area, while taking her for a walk in hopes she’d find something familiar and lead us to her home. Not quite. Well, not quite on that not quite, either. She DID recognize the walk back to our house. I even took her off the leash and she ran up to our house and waited at the door for us.
Which I guess means she’s adopted us.
Sadly, though….
We can’t keep her. We’re already pushing our luck with two dogs of our own, one of which is probably half Pit Bull (we’re really not sure). And she’s not house trained, clearly the case as she’s been bouncing off the couch, bed, us, and occasionally the walls too.
And on our walk around with signs, we got quite a number of stares from passersby, with us holding onto this 55lb, ripped, big-jawed Pit Bull. They don’t care to hear that she’s very nice, they don’t care to find out. And my heart would beat each time we’d walk by people, especially smaller children. Not that I think she’d reach out and attack, but if the parents freak out (which they will), then the kids freak out, then the dog freaks out…. Could be bad, you know?
So she’d have to stay at the house. The house that she’s not well-trained at maintaining to our level of cleanliness. And then that wouldn’t be fair to her to leave her there as we took out our “good” dogs. So our dogs would have to stay home too, in the issue of fairness. And that wouldn’t be fair to them.
So we’re trying to find a way to get her a home, find her owners, or find her a rescue facility that’ll take her. Wish us luck.
Peace.
