It just pisses me the fuck off that my options are either driving 8 hours to another metro area where the balance of other breeds is tilted back towards terriers and chihuahuas, or paying $3k at a breeder to get a dog that’s not a complete piece of shit
I just want a dog I can play with and train and walk with and do dumb shit like put it in a shoulder sling so it can watch what I’m doing
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Life long behavioral and health issues stemming from shelter experiences is something I’ve always suspected but I haven’t been able to find details. I always knew “mutts are healthier!” was just a cope
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That’s what really pissed me off. Not only were the dogs complete dumpster unsocialized mutts, the application process at the shelters in my city became notorious for rejecting people for retarded reasons. A coworker of mine ran got denied because the dog was going to primarily live outside in all but the most extreme weather, and he ended up at a breeder
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It’s BAD in my city which is in the central US. A no-kill shelter got the contract to run animal control in 2020, and immediately abdicated all duties related to capture and neutering sheltered dogs. You could call them that there was an aggressive uncut male dog running around snapping at people or an abused animal chained in a yard and they would completely ignore you until it got posted to social media and they were forced to do something. There was an expose that basically outed them as a pit bull advocacy group (they were responsible for getting the bull ban in the city overturned in 2019) which sounds so absurd to type out but I swear it’s true
In the 5 years they had full control of animal services in the city, shelters went from being a diverse mix of all kinds of breeds to being nearly 100% bull mixes
It took them getting their asses sued off because someone got mauled to death by a pack of pit bulls in 2024 for the city to yank the contract from them.