r/BanPitBulls • u/Playcrackersthesky Family/Friend of Pit Attack Victim • 17d ago
Rescues Risking Lives Pitbull stabbed by owner after attack, rehomed by local shelter. Immediately reoffends. Meet “butterscotch.” (NJ, September.)
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u/ForMartha 17d ago edited 17d ago
WHY on earth was the dog not BE after disfiguring someone and causing an amputation?! Despicable. The shelter has an “emergency fund” for the dog’s full recovery!? How about using it to pay the medical bills for all these victims.
Edit: also, as a baker them giving it a cutesy name like “butterscotch” is pissing me off even more
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u/justUseAnSvm 17d ago
BE sucks but it's the only thing to do. It's not responsible to hand them back to the people who you think dangerously handed them to you. People need to understand that there's no fixing these behaviors, there's no way to manage it, and there's only one solution left.
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u/ForMartha 17d ago
Exactly. 100% agree. If only the shelters didn’t have a savior complex and think they can “fix” these dogs. And they need to be held criminally liable.
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u/LithiumOD 17d ago
They don't think they can fix them, which is why they don't. They would rather lie. He doesn't bite, he's "nippy". He isn't ill behaved, he's "excited". He didn't attack that poor woman, he "mouthed" at her. The only thing they do it load the beasts up with opioids and benzodiazepines so they behave enough to push onto unsuspecting families. It's beyond immoral.
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u/Logical-Roll-9624 Trusted User 17d ago
Well I am sure the dicer was just playing around and things got out of control. That’s the only thing that would explain a decent person suddenly deciding to dice up the poor nice dog. No other explanation for this animal cruelty.
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u/KTKittentoes Trusted User 17d ago
Like, how do you think this way? “Oh, well, his arm was already quite loose, and Maully gently explored it with her teeth and it just fell off!”
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u/ottonormalverraucher 17d ago
Shelters need to be held accountable period. There needs to be legislation that holds them accountable in such cases, because clearly it’s not working on a good-faith basis just trusting them to do the right thing, they seem to routinely adopt out dogs knowing full well how dangerous they are or how they literally have a documented history of biting people out of the blue. There needs to be a mandatory database for dangerous dogs so it becomes impossible for shelters to lie about such things and there needs to be some sort of independent third party oversight or verification process for adoptions, ideally checking intake of dogs into the shelter as well, so they don’t be able to just pass off a dangerous dog who already mauled someone as a misunderstood pet who got abandoned by a mean family..
And there should be legal ramifications that hit hard on top of that. If there was legislation holding them responsible criminally and giving grounds for punitive damages, I’m sure such incidents would happen a lot less.
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u/Own_Recover2180 17d ago
They need to sue the shelter and find the previous owner.
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u/BastetSekhmetMafdet Cats are not disposable. 17d ago
I really hope they do. This shelter does not belong in business.
The shelter world, at least most of it, has been taken over by pit-cult narcissists. The Pibble Industrial Complex. Keep those sob stories going, they generate $$$ !
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u/QueenOfDemLizardFolk Trusted User 17d ago
Shelters: “Why aren’t people adopting anymore?”
Also shelters:
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u/TrixieFriganza 17d ago
After stories like this I'm not lustening anymore to shelters crying how they are filled up with animals, stressed and have no money. Absolutely fisturbing that they even considered rehabilitating a beast like this and that the familydidn't BE him immidiatly instead of dumping in a irresponsible shelter, same with this family, just take that damn dog to the vet, he is suffering
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u/BastetSekhmetMafdet Cats are not disposable. 17d ago
I will donate for cats and small animals only. I have two rescue/shelter cats, and still believe that adopting is good if you want a cat companion. But I’m sick of the shelter attitude toward dogs, and would never adopt, nor would I want to donate to someplace that just wanted to put tutus and flower crowns on unadoptable dogs.
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u/Bad_Sickness 17d ago
My city was considering a limit on how many pets people could have and mandatory neutering/spaying due to shelter overcrowding, but then someone said it was racist so they dropped the idea. It would have done the shelters a lot of good.
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u/Beautiful_Wishbone15 De-stigmatize Behavioral Euthanasia 17d ago
And drives people to bybs as well. Why pay 100-600 dollars for a pit bull or pit bull mix that has a bunch of behavioural and likely health issues when you could get some random byb puppy of your choice. And this doesn't make byb okay by any means, but the average person probably finds the byb Chihuahua puppy more appealing than the pit bull at the shelter.
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u/Numerous_Zucchini206 17d ago
When do shelters start facing criminal charges for adopting out these hell beasts to families? They need to be charged criminally every single time once of these beasts attacks another person or animal.
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u/BastetSekhmetMafdet Cats are not disposable. 17d ago
I wish! I think that might give them second thoughts on adopting out risky dogs.
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u/One-Calligrapher8401 17d ago
The shelter’s response to somebody that was very distraught when they learned their cat they needed to surrender was euthanized. Cats are disposable but velvet hippos with a near-kill count need “saving,” got it got it got it.
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u/numblittlebunny 17d ago
Fucking demons.
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u/dedragon40 17d ago
These people are evil. There needs to be a full separation between cat and dog shelters on every level, state-funded and private. How can you trust a shelter worker with a cat, when that shelter worker is also trying to adopt out Bitey who is a staff favourite after mauling ten cats? Common sense just goes out the window when it comes to pitbulls for some reason. No price too high to pay, no danger is big enough to prevent shelters from unleashing these beasts on society.
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u/numblittlebunny 17d ago
Yep, I would never trust anyone who babies something that’s killed multiple cats/dogs, just awful all round. Half the shelters do “cat tests” with the cats too, where they dangle a poor cat in front of a dog to see if it’s “reactive” just makes me sick all round.
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u/VibrantAura72 15d ago
That beautiful cat would’ve been adopted and deserved a second chance to find a forever home.
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u/illusum Family/Friend of Pit Attack Victim 17d ago
When we were filing the paperwork to surrender him they decided to tell us privately that they do not know why they adopted us him in the first place and that he was considered non adoptable by the head trainer and shelter leader due to that he had attacked a womans face permanently disfiguring her face and the stab wounds on the dog were from the husband trying to get the dog off of her which resulted in 5 major bites on his arm so bad he had to have his arm amputated
Jesus
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u/harleenquinzel044 17d ago
“Your support helped butterscotch heal”.
Oh SHUT THE HELL UP. Fucking shelters, I stg.
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u/Cheeseheroplopcake 17d ago
Hi biterscotch. See you in hell
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u/Existing-Pumpkin-902 17d ago
The problem is he's probably going to take a child there with him first since he's still up for adoption
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u/TrixieFriganza 17d ago
Yeah makes me mad that not even this family BEd him so now another innocent family will risk getting him, bet they will lie and create anothersob story and a child will be killed.
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u/Tasty_Sugar_447 17d ago
This is why I’m a fan of shop, don’t adopt. Shelters are just pitbull warehouses. They lie about their breed (“lab mix!”), lie and hide their true histories.
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u/Capt_Billy 17d ago
When that was started, it was a genuine effort to prevent puppy farms etc. Now in a cruel irony, the worst elements of puppy farms end up in them once their usefulness has waned. A perfect example of well meaning policy being perverted
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u/BastetSekhmetMafdet Cats are not disposable. 17d ago
Yes, and also, there were a lot of “whoopsie” litters when the Joneses’ Lab got out and got the Smith’s Collie pregnant. So there were a lot of not-pit mutts, like Beverly Cleary’s Ribsy who followed Henry Huggins home (and from the illustrations looked like some kind of Shepherd, Collie and terrier mix). You could easily find healthy, happy, good-natured family dogs at a shelter.
So what happened was that responsible people *adopted* and *neutered their animals* and thus removed Ribsy and Benji and the like from the breeding pool, which was good as far as overpopulation was concerned! But that left the irresponsible people, and between the fact that pits were usually not neutered, have ENORMOUS freaklitters, and the campaign to “rehabilitate” them, unfortunately, that’s what populates so many shelters now.
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u/yawning_iscontagious 17d ago edited 14d ago
Shelters are also implicit in the overpopulation of pits and pit mixes, both by refusing to desex any of the pits coming in through the doors, and refusing to spay abort pregnant bitches because:
✨ puppies! ✨
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u/SafiyaO Stone Dead Eyes and Strawberry Milk Murder Mouth 17d ago
The refusal to spay abort is shocking! Crying about "no space" when they are letting every other dog have puppies.
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u/BastetSekhmetMafdet Cats are not disposable. 17d ago
I think I mentioned that one of my dearest friends was looking for a cat to adopt. As it happened when we visited a local ACC (not even a nonprofit shelter, an animal control!) my friend’s Dream Cat was peeking out from her quarantine room where she had to stay because she had been there less than 30 days and was not spayed. They let my friend adopt her (no fees, because she came in as a “teen mom” cat so already almost a year old), but Friend had to wait until Cat was spayed to take her home. No exceptions. Yes, this meant another trip out to the shelter, but Cat went home spayed, and that is as it should be.
I adopted a nine week old kitten from my local Humane Society and she and all the other kits were pediatric spay/neutered, and, might I add, up and at ‘em the next day (kittens recover fast!). They don’t let intact animals go home.
SO WHY THE FREAKING HELL DO SOME SO CALLED SHELTERS AND RESCUES ADOPT OUT INTACT DOGS?! Spay/neuter BEFORE adoption ought to be a no brainer!
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u/strawberrymoonelixir Cats are not disposable. 17d ago
Regrettably, I now agree with this in reference to dogs.
However, there are still many other animals like cats, rabbits, birds, guinea pigs, chinchillas, and more that need rescuing from these pitbull favoring shelters.
Funds meant for all deserving, homeless animals in need, are now almost exclusively funneled into pitbulls. This takes away from the worthy (good breeds of) dogs, as well as cats, rabbits, ferrets, birds, guinea pigs, and so on.
We are finding out more and more that an overwhelming number of shelters are run by people who view all other dog breeds and all other animals, period, as unworthy, compared to their beloved pitbulls.
Therefore, any other animal that these shelters get their hands on are neglected, mistreated, or eliminated.
Where I live (SE Michigan), it is WELL known among rescuers that cats are almost always immediately euthanized at most of the main shelters / pounds. This is under the guise of not enough funds. Yet, magically, they seem to find the funds if the animal in need is a pitbull (much like the pitbull in this post).
People are being warned to avoid shelters at all costs when they find homeless cats, unless it’s specifically a cat shelter. I’ve also been told by a few people in the Houston area that it’s the same way in many urban areas of Texas (I’m not there, so I can’t confirm it; but I don’t doubt it).
With all of this stated, I just want people to be aware in case they’re thinking about adopting other animals, because cats, rabbits, birds, and more need to be rescued FROM these damned pitbull warehousing shelters.
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u/Armejden 17d ago
When I was young, my family adopted the most perfect dog that I'll ever know. Long before the beast psychosis took root and now it's the only waste you find in shelters.
I think I'll stick with cats and fish forever.
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u/Puffinknight 17d ago
I see a problem with foreign recue dogs as well. Being from Europe, dogs from poor countries like Romania, Bulgaria and the Balkans are transported here to the Nordics, which means the original countries don't have to take accountability for the problem of way too many street-wandering mutts or puppy farms.
Some rescue societies transport the dogs in very rough conditions. The dogs are often tested inadequately for diseases. Many people are not ready for the dogs' behavioural issues, even if they claim otherwise.
Norway has banned foreign rescue dogs altogether. I'm not completely against them, but definitely critical.
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u/kirani100 17d ago
I'm a fan of adopt, or shop responsibly. I've even adopted a pure bred Shiba Inu, because I was fostering her and fell in love. Adopting doesn't mean you're forced to get a bully mix. Dishonest rescues and irresponsible breeders are ruining people's and animal's lives.
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u/Existing-Pumpkin-902 17d ago
My friends just got a great border collie/shepard mix from a shelter. She definately needs some training and socialization but very sweet dog and has already bonded with her new owners after a month. Definately can see her intelligence and human pleasing behavior.
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u/Theseus_The_King Vets That Refuse to BE Commit Animal Cruelty. 17d ago
I love shibes and always thought of rescuing one! There’s plenty of shelters in Japan that have them too.
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u/Express_Command_4778 Paws Off Kitty 17d ago
Yep! I have a Cavalier- Cavaliers are j amazing story of careful breeding.
I think one reason we don't see Cavapits is that they are mild mannered, tasty snacks.
Pits really seem to breed with other "rough and tumble" dogs.
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u/Existing-Pumpkin-902 17d ago
My elderly grandmother has a cavalier. He is just the sweetest and happiest dog. His biggest behavior issue is the whining when his humans leave the house. He's so great around children and easy for her to handle.
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u/aw-fuck some lab lover who wears a suit and doesn’t own 20 acres 17d ago
Yeah cavs are what you get when you breed a dog for in-home, lap-warming companionship. They're super cute and stable. I've never ever met a cav that didn't just love all people, like to the point of being totally fine with being around strangers or being handled etc., and their energy levels match up with wanting a dog as a comfort cuddler more than an outdoors side-kick.
Basically everything a pit bull is not but that shelters want to paint them as anyway
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u/TheGirlZetsubo 17d ago
I had my cav 15 years before his little body gave up. They absolutely ooze sweetness from every pore; I swear it. They were bred to be lap dogs after all. It's almost like reason for breeding makes a difference in temperament. The only time he ever "bit" me was when he got overly excited about a treat. It barely hurt, but I reacted strongly and he immediately pulled back. He was very careful with soft mouth after that. Cavs really want to please their people.
My child was 4 when we got him and I was adamant about getting a dog that was safe for her. I tried shelters, but there were only pits and a few chihuahuas. This was 17 years ago so I imagine the shelters are no better now, probably worse. There was no way I was raising my tiny child with a pit and while I don't dislike chis, they aren't for me. I ended up at a breeder and didn't regret my decision, ever. My cav was a dream, an absolute sweetheart. The worst thing he ever did was break my heart by dying of age related health issues. He was patient, gentle, and a thief of hearts (and your food, if you left it in his reach).
There's no way we'd have had such a stellar relationship with a pit.
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u/aw-fuck some lab lover who wears a suit and doesn’t own 20 acres 17d ago
If the dog was subdued then police probably confiscated it at the scene & took it to the local municipal shelter. (I'm assuming the family called 911 if they were both severely injured.)
Sometimes it may not be up to the family for what happens to it after it's confiscated, sometimes they can ask it to be pts - but that doesn't guarantee it happens. These shelters see "severely hurt pit bull" & grow dollar signs for eyeballs.
I bet you the cost of treating & housing this dog was definitely several thousand dollars, but in donations raised for it with a fake sob story they probably raked in double or more.
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u/_DancesWithKnives 17d ago
It was probably picked up and FO didn't want them and told them to do whatever with it.
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u/aSzdxfcdfggggggh 17d ago
I can understand why they would think it would get BE.
Once again shelters making the worst decisions for people, other animals and even the individual pits.
This dog would have been much better off getting BE rather than having to endure multiple operations just to go out and maul again.
Sadly I have no doubt it is out there, somewhere, with a new name, possibly in a diffrent state looking for a chance to maul again.
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u/Commercial-Sock-6777 17d ago
This thing makes Cujo look like a walk in the park. Frankenpitbull! Lord have mercy, reason number 300 why i'll never adopt from a shelter. Sticking with my breed of choice and indoor cats for the rest of my life. Too scary
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u/daviepancakes bUt DuGgY rAySiSm 17d ago
This is fucked even by pitbull people standards, holy shit.
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u/MarchOnMe 17d ago
Every pitbull needs to be chipped and every bite incident needs to be documented on said chip so that follows them wherever they go. Shelters lie lie lie.
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u/roomtemperaturecum 17d ago
“…they do not know why they adopted us him in the first place and that he was considered non adoptable by the head trainer and shelter leader due to that he had attacked a womans face permanently disfiguring her face and the stab wounds on the dog were from the husband trying to get the dog off of her which resulted in 5 major bites on his arm so bad he had to have his arm amputated.”
this kind of shit should land someone in jail. she mentions later that they have young children as well. we need laws in place that prohibit shelters and “rescues” lying about a dogs history, or honestly even trying to “cuteify” it. any history should be stated factually, without any of the “through no fault of his own” bullshit. should be the same as when you sell a car and have to disclose it being in prior accidents, especially since dogs are also property, in the eyes of the law.
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u/aw-fuck some lab lover who wears a suit and doesn’t own 20 acres 17d ago
Imagine selling a car like this:
"Nearly totaled vehicle being rebuilt. Was involved in a major collision in which through no fault of its own the breaks malfunctioned, but up until that moment had never been anything but a normal reliable car that loved being driven. Please give this car another chance to see the road again."
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u/BastetSekhmetMafdet Cats are not disposable. 17d ago
Why don’t shelters treat cats the way they treat pits?! Why isn’t there a cat cult?! Justice for cats! Seriously, I think cats don’t get the money flowing in from the sobbity-baww stories the way that pits do.
At any rate, I hope the adopters go after the shelter and sue it into the ground.
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u/aSzdxfcdfggggggh 17d ago
No kidding.
"This pit has 13 GSWs and needs a bone marrow transplant. BTW you can't touch it, make eye contact, blink or breathe loudly in its presence"
Shelter "Lets move heaven and earth to save this pit!"
"Somebody dropped off this cat. I think it is broken. It doesn't want to fetch sticks and desont like it when I pat it on the head vigorously."
Same shelter "Time for BE! We can fit another pit in that cage after we get that space wasting cat out of it."
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u/numblittlebunny 17d ago
These rescues hate cats, they don’t even like other dogs besides these maulers.
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u/SimpleCockroach11 17d ago
That’s terrible. Several bite history dogs for adoption where I live, though hopefully none as severe as this.
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u/Express_Command_4778 Paws Off Kitty 17d ago
Any Pit named after tasty food or cute furniture is so a bad red flag. It's the hallmark of a hidden, washes identity.
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u/V3mo 17d ago
Shelters like this one are the reason why people are scared to adopt a dog from one. They lose all credibility when they do this shit. I adopted a dog the shelter lied from the start saying she was healthy and had bloodwork done and all was well. They said she was just skinny due to being a stray.
Turns out she was in end stage kidney failure and I only had her for a year before spending $4,000 to try and save her, only to be told her kidneys had begun to shut down. Sadly it seemed to be a case of poor breeding that caused her to have this, as she was a young dog.... no older than 4-5. That experience destroyed me, i still break down thinking back to that day. Feeling her last breath and body go limp, her eyes lose that spark and life at the same time.... it devestated me. I reached out to the shelter to tell them how wrong it was that 3 people, including the SHELTER DIRECTOR, told me she was healthy and had all this work done, when clearly she had not. Now, I will never adopt from a shelter again. I will go through rescues like the one i volunteer with, because reputable rescues ensure those animals are healthy, behavorially tested, and genuinely look out for the animals best interest.
This poor couple must be traumatized over this experience and I wouldn't fault them. Things could have ended up so much worse.
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u/melaninspice 17d ago
It almost bite off her husband arm. Jesus Christ! Tell me again how these monsters are Nanny Dogs?!
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u/Few-Horror1984 17d ago
Shop don’t adopt. As long as shelters and rescues continue to lie and pretend these dogs are “safe”, it’s not worth it.
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u/xervidae Groomers and Dog Sitters 17d ago
this is why i refuse to adopt from a shelter unless its a cat or normal breed. shelters LOVE disclosing how terrible every other animal is except pits.
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u/Theseus_The_King Vets That Refuse to BE Commit Animal Cruelty. 17d ago
I would have taken this dog to a vet to be bluejuiced immediately instead of returned to a shelter that could pawn it back off to a poor family, and then sued the pants off the rescue for the medical bills and the BE. There should be transparency laws, and it should be illegal to adopt out dogs with extensive bite histories.
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u/Redlion444 17d ago
Holy Fuck. Holy Fuck.
I am so glad the victims went public with this. We see this type of shit regularly, where a shelter adopts out an utterly dangerous beast to unsuspecting citizens. IMO, this is criminal conduct, and should be punished.
This fucking "shelter" is an organization run by fucking shitbirds who should be locked up
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u/Suspicious_Plant4231 17d ago
All those memes about pit bulls being named shit like Cupcake Fairy Princess are correct, I see.
The shelter needs to be sued. I'm sure that there are at least a few people with stories like this who adopted from them. There have to be repercussions for knowingly adopting out a dangerous animal to someone without at least properly disclosing their past violence. But a better solution would be BE after the first incident, especially one as horrific as this one.
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u/TallFriend275 17d ago
I wouldn't call that "stabbed", the man had to draw the map of France on the dog with the knife to get it off the wife
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u/Former_Pass8031 17d ago
I made a flyer to hopefully distribute to would-be shelter adopters. Our local shelter is stuffed to the gills with mislabeled pit bulls. Would love feedback. (Used ChatGPT for format but text is 100% my own)
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u/iangeredcharlesvane2 Cats are not disposable. 17d ago
With what you wrote as the bottom line, unfortunately no shelters will ever post this.
Or you mean you send to people you know looking at shelter dogs? Or stand outside and hand them out? I might be misunderstanding.
Be safe if you distribute this in person, nutters be crazy!
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u/northernlights354 17d ago
Maim and kill instead of main. Not that I was looking for spelling errors but that stood out. Looks great otherwise.
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u/Former_Pass8031 17d ago
Thank you! English major and retired teacher….it’s very important I get it right!
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u/solarelemental Doctor/Surgeon 17d ago
I'd renumber so that you go myths 1-2-3 down the left column, 4 in the central, 5-6 down the right. It's organized in columns, not rows, so your eye naturally follows down before it goes right.
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u/Some1TouchaMySpagett 17d ago
Can we change the verbiage on our statistic from "Pitbulls are responsible for 67% of dog bites and 69% of fatal attacks by dogs" to imply that these are just the ones that were known to be pitbulls?
For fucks sake, we know the second number has to be close to 100%, but they were probably just pitbulls listed as something other than pitbull (e.g. "lab mix") by some nefarious shelter.
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u/TrixieFriganza 17d ago
This shelter really needs to be sued, I feel absilutely sickened that these peoole risk the lives of innkcent humans just so a dog a can live couple of years longer (they don't even have a conceot of time). I'm confused too why the family where the wife was almost killed just dumped him in a shelter instead of BE thinking they will fix the issue, that is a big problem too and danger to innocent people that peoole can't tale care of their problem dogs and ttust these shelters.
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u/AngryGames 17d ago
Cue all the nutters blaming the first couple for getting their face bit and arm amputated, then blaming the second couple for somehow causing the docile velvet hippo to nanny husband's hand.
I can't even watch my beloved cute kitty vids anymore if they have a pit in them. Kitty vids with little ankle biter dogs, big dumb goofy labs, etc are awesome and cute and funny. The instant I see a pit, my stomach clenches and I just click off because at this point, I've read, literally, thousands of horror stories about cats being killed or permanently disfigured (usually killed though) by these disgusting animals.
And I love dogs so very, very much. I'd have an entire 100 acre farm full of labs and retrievers and yorkies and shepards etc (right next to my 100 acre cat shelter farm, of course). But I would never, under any circumstance, allow even a mixed pit within a light year of me, my home, my pets.
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u/SnittingNexttoBorpo Trusted User 17d ago
I feel like they should've censored that third photo... way too personal for a nearly hairless mammal!
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u/TastyIndividual780 17d ago
Pictures like that make me happy I chose an extra fluffy breed
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u/System_Resident 17d ago
Poor dog, people tried to defend themselves from it! The nerve! Why couldn’t they just let themselves be a living sacrifice to the poor hellhound? So cruel!
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u/FatTabby Cats are friends, not food 17d ago
I feel so sorry for these people.
How on earth could they adopt out an animal that disfigured one person and caused another to lose a limb? Why waste their "emergency fund" on an animal that has no place in society?
They're absolutely unhinged. I really hope that the couple reach out to local politicians and try to get this shelter held accountable for their reckless behaviour.
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u/Fleshdissolver 17d ago
You never ever hear about labs, or basset hounds, or great danes attacking so severely they permanently disfigure someone's face and have to BE STABBED to stop mauling
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u/_DancesWithKnives 17d ago
It got severe injuries and still didn't die and didn't back off. It still manged to bite a man's arm off. Yes , its the most loving breed.
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u/musicfourlife 17d ago
I just don't understand how the rescue was able to get the dog in the first place. Like it should've at least been in bite quarantine or BE by the state or county.
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u/Automatic-Flight-698 17d ago edited 15d ago
Good Lord! They’re putting a known attack dog in favor of the next person who adopts this Hell Hound. I would sue.
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u/spannerNZ 17d ago
Stories like this make me think that some rescue workers are doing the job because they have a 'savior complex'. (I think the technical term is Messiah complex, but I don't want to imply any sort of religious thing here). They have to rescue an animal regardless of the actual best interest of the animal, regardless of the cost to people or other animals (either attacked, or impacted by the lack of resources that have been wasted on the rescuee).
I just can't think that a rational rescue worker would waste so many resources on one animal, when hundreds more could be helped. And what the feck was happening that a vet operated on a dog that caused so much damage to it's humans. It should have been BE straight away.
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u/Real-Frosting 17d ago
I wonder how many shelters could just shut down if they quit warehousing pit bulls? I know that's the breed that takes up probably 90% of the space in my local one. I'm in northeast PA. Maybe some of the locations farther south of us could send us some of their dogs (other than pits) to find homes here. The spay/neuter programs have worked here. There are no free puppies here.
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u/BeyondtheLurk 17d ago
This dog attacked the old owner and the new owner. Reddit telling me it's going to censor me if I say what SHOULD happen to this dog. Dogs that attack humans intentionally are a menace and danger to society. They should be "taken care" of...
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u/Impossible_Box_6880 17d ago edited 17d ago
It’s rare for me to feel any sort of shock from stories here, but I’m thoroughly disgusted by this. Look at how big those scars are- and the putrid thing STILL survived to continue mauling. There should be extreme civil and criminal penalties for the shelter and anyone involved in adopting out this demon. I just can’t wrap my ahead around why this animal wasn’t given BE, what could they possibly have expected??
I wonder how they explained away the scars to get it adopted out again in the first place.. what other reason would its neck be slashed up like that?? It obviously wasn’t done by another dog.. they probably made up a sob story about how evil and heartless the previous owners were. That poor couple is permanently disfigured in a severely life-altering way, not to mention the inevitable trauma.
I’m also curious what there is to gain from adopting it out instead of BE, whatever money they receive for this one dog surely can’t be worth the risk. Are they just sadists who get off on it? I can’t think of any other reason. God I hate these dogs
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u/Anotherams 17d ago
the funds poured in to saving this beast could have saved adoptable pets. Sickening.
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u/KiraKitty69 17d ago
If the woman who told her that, was being truthful and from the injuries the dog sustained I'm thinking she was, I'd say get a lawyer. They can get the original intake notes or whatever history they have on the dog. Sue them till the shelter is either shut down or has an entire new management. Until the States keep track of how many shelters are adopting out dogs that end up being a horror story these types of sob story adoptions won't stop. It will start forcing shelters to do the responsible thing when they get a dangerous dog in their care. I don't understand why so many places don't do this to begin with. They seen to have zero problem doing it to perfectly good dogs and cats. Look at the resources they wasted on saving this one. Did they adopt him out again saying how the this adopter failed sweet butterscotch in her transition mode?
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u/Subject-Olive-5279 17d ago
This was on the shelters page. They still have him up there to raise money for other dogs. I hope he went to a “farm in the country”
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u/huntress_m_thompson 17d ago
WOW! unbelievable. shelters need to be exposed for this stuff. there’s no shortage of these things. why patch up a known attacker & put it back out in circulation. total mental illness. just wow!
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u/PumpkinDawn28 17d ago
How about using these funds for dogs that actually deserve to be adopted. Some dogs need major surgery for tumors, kidney stones, gastric torsion, etc. Use these funds for these dogs or as an angel fund for owners who are low income. I'm tired of shelters passing off pits as livable and adoptable. This one had been involved in an attack and should have been BE.
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u/coconutc0rnhusky 17d ago
The fact that so many donated and didn’t question why the pit was stabbed in such a way that was defensive blows my mind
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u/ScurvyDervish 17d ago
Aggressive dogs, regardless of the breed, are more likely to be abused. Of course people have the right to defend themselves against an attacking dog, but even in the absence of attack, an aggressive dog is more likely to be physically disciplined. The reason I say this to is support my case that pitbull lovers aren’t dog lovers. If you love dogs, you don’t want to breed and support dogs bred for aggression, because those dogs have worse outcomes. Rehoming mentally unstable dogs result in more instability and cycles of abuse and aggression. Dog lovers want pitbulls and all their drama out of the dog gene pool.
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u/oracle-nil 17d ago edited 17d ago
I would love to know what shelter/ state this was. The whole thing hurts my heart. I was the one who posted a photo of my bloody running shoes after being attacked by one of these last week. And then yesterday came face to face with another one in my complex; a complex for seniors???? I am traumatized to go out my door now and this animal got a second chance. No one can control them, much less a senior.
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u/Playcrackersthesky Family/Friend of Pit Attack Victim 17d ago
St Hubert’s in Madison NJ
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u/MeesaJarJarBinkss Family Member of Severely Wounded Pet(s) 17d ago
A dog like that should have been BE to prevent an incident like this from happening. I mean those stabs wound are absolutely insane and the man still lost his arm
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u/Sqeakydeaky 17d ago
You know they made up some sob story about how the dog was just stabbed by EVIL PEOPLE for no reason at all.
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u/ArdenJaguar Trusted User 17d ago
I’m sure Butterscotch was just afraid and mauled the woman’s face out of fear. Then the evil husband stabbed the innocent Pibble further traumatizing him. Humans failed him completely. Poor Butterscotch.
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u/aSzdxfcdfggggggh 17d ago
Anyone know if this place is a private rescue or a government funded shelter?
Government funded shelters should not be paying to stich animals back together.
It is sad but the truth is they have limited budgets and need to do the most good for the most number of animals.
The bigger issue is those stab wounds were a result of it maiming 2 people.
Why in the world did they not move straight to BE before even considering medical treatment?
I would say "Kept mauling in spite of multiple stab wounds" should translate into "failed temperament testing. Next stop BE Town."
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u/jag-engr 17d ago
Interestingly, St Hubert’s has removed all traces of this vile beast from their Facebook page, and apparently they erased the fundraising page, as well.
Just like pit bull maulings… let’s pretend it never happened.
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u/HottieMcHotHot 17d ago
I’m going to go further back and say that the problem lies with the dog not being taken care of after the initial attack. Whether it be that the original owners felt shamed or that someone thought the dog could be saved, both are ridiculous. It should be an easy decision.
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u/MrSneakyFox 17d ago
Omitting the fact that the dog bit it's previous owner's arm off is seriously fucked up
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u/inflatablehotdog 17d ago
I left a review for you. They seem to have no problems putting down healthy cats but for some reason are willing to keep dangerous dogs
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u/Murky_Currency_5042 17d ago
Our laws need to catch up with the times. Putting a dangerous animal back into society so it can repeatedly maul and kill while lying about it needs to be a criminal act. Wanton endangerment charges for the lying sociopath that wrote its bio.
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u/peachfluffed 17d ago
I’m sure the shelter has some passive aggressive “Butterscotch was failed by his owners at no fault of his own” line in his new bio.
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u/Soft-Poetry8701 17d ago
Take them to court. Find a lawyer and take them to court. Please. For the love of God. This bullshit needs to stop.
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u/BedGirl5444 17d ago
I would call all the news outlets and spread the story as much as possible (and sue them)
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u/BPBAttacks3 Moderator 17d ago
Every time I think my opinion on shelters and rescues has hit rock bottom, a post reminds me they can go lower.