I Killed Another PIt bull today

This was posted on another board. It was written by a woman named Angie who works in a shelter in Ontario. Very sad poem, but very powerful.

I killed Another Pit Bull Today

Another day, another damn dollar
I shake my head, and hand back the collar.
I killed another pit bull today
What do you people want me to say?

Believe I heard this story before
Starts with cute little puppy, say no more,
Then that puppy grew up quick
This story is starting to make me sick.

It’s easy for you to walk through my door
But my head hurts and my heart is sore
So I killed another Pit Bull today
People, I don’t know what to say

Dogs at large and people don’t care,
Back yard breeders, responsible owner is rare
Didn’t know if my dog should see a vet
Not spayed or vaccinated either I bet

My shelter door is a revolving one
Everyday when I think I am done
Another Pit Bull Dies that day
Please don’t ask, I don’t know what to say

In the truck just driving around
Barking dogs is a pleasant sound
Pit Bull no muzzle, Breed ban in
This dog will die, what a Sin.

You call me a killer, a murderer right
You’re the irresponsible owner in my sight
So I killed another Pit bull today
And through my tears, I can not say

I got this job so I could care
For the unwanted animals, how is this fair?
Irresponsible owner makes me clean up their mess
My emotions are drained and I need some rest

My future is not looking too bright
Tomorrow things might look better in different light
But for now I will kill another Pit bull today
But you did this; not me is all I can say.

 

WOW, very sad but so very true. Thank you for sharing that.

 

yeah thank you for sharing, almost made me cry. Too bad its absolutley true.

 

IMO, the pitbull overcrowding assertion is fabricated to sound wayyy worse than it is so they can push thier anti pitbull agenda.

on the west coast board, a couple doggers went up into a shelter or two in L.A. to see about this overcrowding situation they were trying to use as reason to pass BSL in that county, which i live directly below.

there wasnt one kennel with more than one dog in it, there were empty kennels, and get this, only roughly 10% or less of the dogs were pitbulls. the rest were mutts with a few pure bred dogs in the mix.

im just speaking from my side of town, the "overcrowding" problem they have is a myth. this poem, also JMO, is pure ASPCA PETA type propaganda.

 

I wish you were right,,come to Detroit,,there is never less then 20 pitbulls on any given day in the pound,,and these are the ones that are caught,,I can show twice that many on one block running the street. I am there every week,,trust me its not BS.

 

GAME TEST

Ok, I don't know how to say this other than you are completely WRONG.

I have volunteered at shelters since I was a little girl and have travelled the country for the past few years (for personal reasons) and volunteering here and there. I worked at a shelter out here.

You are wrong. That was one visit to one shelter on one day and that is not enough to go on assuming this issue is overdramatized.

The animal overpopullation dilema is a fact. Unfortunatley for pit lovers, an incredible percentage of shelter dogs are pits. FACT.

This is not some kind of conspericy. BSL is BS and it's just one of many reasons why idiots want to pass the laws but you are wrong. I think it is important for you as a pit bull owner and lover to understand.

 

unfortunately, 90% of the pit/pit mixes that are in the shelters are euthanized every day.. you dont see any in your shelters because they are already dead.. that poem was made by a shelter worker, not peta.. there is a shelter near me, that does not adopt out pit bulls at all. every tuesday and friday all the pits in the shelter are euthanized... if you dont see pits in shelters its because they have already been euthanized, or are in the area that is restricted to shelter workers only...

 

that was a wonderful poem... very heart wrenching

 

whatever, bleeding hearts. im telling you what i heard from someone who was just there last week. like i said, im talking about what going on on my side of the tracks.

 

In St. Louis, the local shelter only had room for maybe a dozen of them. (In the single cages, not in dog runs with the other dogs.) And those spots were always full. I can't even imagine what it would be like in other areas with the APBT population is higher.

 

i am truly sorry to hear that game test.. maybe instead of you listening to your friends, you should go to the shelters yourself and see..ask them if they adopt out pit bulls. ask them what happens to them if they dont.. go to different shelters and check it out.. maybe if you saw for yourself like some of us have you wouldnt be so fast to be snooty with your remarks.. work in a shelter for a month and maybe you will understand.. get involved in rescue, and then maybe you will understand.... its really sad when people cant see past their own eyes that maybe, just maybe,there really is a big overpopulation and breed ban problem.. oh yeah, lets see, how about if you go to denver colorado, where they have euthanized over 300 pit bulls already.. or ontario canada, where the pit bulls that are in shelters have 2 choices since the ban went into effectt- be euthanized or be sold to labs.. some shelters will send them out of the county to be adopted. most wont.. maybe contact Spindletop refuge in texas , and ask leah about all the pits she has rescued from shelters that were minutes away from being euthanized... if you look around and open your eyes, you will realize your "friend" is wrong. but then again, who am i - just another bleeding heart who worked in a shelter and who does rescue now, who sees how bad the bans are , and who sees that pits and pit mixes dont always get out of shelters alive....

 

thats touching and sad, the worst part about is its true that vets and techs that are here to help our animails also have to put them down because of stupid people that dont desierve to own one

 

I truly wish you were wrong on this, but you're not. At 1 point in time, the rescue I used to be with had over 50+ pit bulls & we were turning away at least 15 owner surrenders a day (sometimes more). That doesn't take into effect all the strays & whatnot & I'm in just 1 city. You must also understand that a) pit bulls are usually euthanized upon entry into animal shelters/pounds & b) if someone goes into the shelter & asks specifically if there are any pit bulls, they will tell you no & definitely not show you them (b/c in their minds, only someone who is up to no good will ask for those breeds right away).

Look at newsarticles, look in the paper. Look around you. And SEE. The "pit bull" breeds are everywhere.

 

Angie writes some good stuff. Read that on the other board, as well. Bless yah CanGal, I couldn't do what you do for a living. I'd surely loose it....

I wish over population, over crowding, and over brreeding WASN'T such a problem, but sadly, for pit bulls, it is a problem of epidemic proportions, and it IS a reality, regardless of what someone else, "may have told you".
Pit bulls are the #1 registered, bred, and owned dog across the country. Ironic, that they are also the #1 misunderstood and euthanized, as well.

 

I was searching thru pages and pages of pitbull stuff, and just came across this site, and this writing:

Pit Bulls are now one of the #1 breed of dog killed in shelters every month. It is estimated that up to 200 Pit Bulls are being euthanized in animal shelters everyday and that's in Los Angeles alone. Chicago, Illinois has one of the highest killing rates in the United States, with over 35,000 dogs and cats are destroyed each year. - Please Do Not Breed. This is a poem wrote by an anonymous kennel worker.

 

And you wonder why I left Ontario? The ban is a piece of fascist legislation. I have never used that term to describe any piece of Canadian legislation from any province but I do here because that is what it is.

My dog would have to be muzzled. The police would always be in my face because my dog would be neither neutered nor muzzled. But what good would that do us if I were in jail and he were taken to to the local butchers and de-anatomized while you were protesting your and his innocence before a judge.

He could possibly be euthenized if the paper work were fucked up.

Knowing my fellow citizens I realized that I'd be one of the few outwardly protesting people. Activism requires movement. They are real good at being sheep.

In the land of "I have my shepherd under voice control" a muzzle would mean that my dog would have been attacked and unable to defend himself many times. It has happened often before.

He is on the leash. Some strange, unleashed, larger dog comes bye and fwoomp! It wants to scrap with the smaller dog. I'm yanking Zeus around, getting the dogs separated. I'm yelling for the owner to get their dog. He can barely hear but sees what is going on and is trudging towards us.

The other dog sees and hears the owner approaching so it is calming down but still gruff. It is unsure of whether or not it wants to go at Zeus. It'll wait for the owner to show up.

Just my idea of the Great Ontario Dream that is Ontario today.

It's a powerful, evocative poem that stresses that there are many people that would rather get fucked out of their animal than fight for their and the animals' rights. They were outmanouvered by the establishment preying on the immigrants' fear of animals(in a lot of other countries they are guards and weapons not pets).

Incidentally, Bob McDonald died this week. He was the media focal point for the Clarion call to save the world from pit bulls, at the Toronto Sun. A small-minded, quick read for the news of the day. Hopefully he'll be met by a huge delegation of dogs that went before their time because he is such a jerk. He was old and the pit bull legislation was the last great hurrah for this ancient scribe. The man spoke and was the truth personified.

C'mon Saint Peter. Do your stuff. Remind Bob that we are the caretakers of the animals not the dominators. We have Dominion not domination over the Animal kingdoms.

In Ontario they would, in their "Save the world from the rampaging pit bull", put me under the penalty of law for defying their edict and still neuter him before there is a chance to test the validity of the law under the Constitution. They don't even think that the Constitution comes into their quest for the annihilation of the breed.

Where are the vets that will declare this breed to be a lab, give the owners the papers that will remove the enforcers from the picture. But, then again, at a hundred bucks a pop business may rule the emotions. Wonder how much the governments pay for these services with stray dogs? Or are they the one's that are sold to science?

I don't want to live in a world where people think that the only reason that my dog is nice is because he's neutered. My dog is not neutered and people like him just fine the way he is.

 

Look Through My Eyes
Artist: Phil Collins
Content: Shelter Dogs and Cats

 

Well, I would like to share the fact that i dont want anyone to forget the meaning of this poem. It is intended for us owners. Maybe not the people on this Forum but for those people out there that have no right to own any animal. Irresposable owners is what this is about. Dont loose sight of that. Gametest. I want you to know that it is not propaganda that is spokin in that poem. Unfortunatly, overcouding is a problem all over the US of A. I see what you are saying, but its a problem everywhere. Good read. Thanks and dont forget the true reality and meaning.

 

They need to Euth them all......I'm glad that I can afford them their dignity.

 

The pit bulls that shelters do allow for adoption stay in the shelters for a good long time. I worked at a shelter that tested all the dogs for adoptability. The pits would stay in the shelters for an average of 1 month. That is a very long time for a shelter because you have to turn down surrenders (who knows where those animals end up because all the shelters are full) you have to feed them. Often a dog will be deemed adoptable and after a good long time in the kennel, they get weird and are sometimes euthed because they become unadoptable. It makes it harder for shelters to allow pits for adoption because they have to make sure they live in an area with no bans, insurance, permission from the homeowner or landlord and they usually can not go to homes with small kids, cats, other animals, etc.

It's been said many times "this is not a breed for everyone" yet there are so many and only a small portion of people who should own them. It's sad when a dog comes back to the shelter numerous times because it's just being a pit bull. After a while they get euthed. They've had their shot over and over, it's now another dogs turn.