Saving Pit Bulls, one wet nose at a time
Halloween With a Dog Who Isn’t Ready for Halloween
Halloween is a strange night for dogs. From their side of the door, the sequence goes like this: the doorbell rings every ninety seconds, strangers appear in shapes that aren't people-shaped, everyone shouts, and this continues for three hours. For a confident dog...
Three Times Longer: The Real Cost of a Label
In 2016, researchers at Arizona State University published a study that should have changed more than it did. They looked at pit bull-type dogs in a shelter setting and compared them to lookalike dogs of similar size, coloring, and build who happened to be labeled...
We Don’t Set a Deadline
There's a question we get asked more than any other, usually by someone who has just read about one of our sponsored dogs and noticed she's been listed for a while. "What happens if nobody adopts her?" The answer is that we keep going. The model, in plain terms Kennel...
The First Three Days, Three Weeks, and Three Months
Most adoptions that fail don't fail because the dog was wrong. They fail because the first two weeks looked nothing like what the family expected, and nobody told them that was normal. So here's the version somebody should have handed you at the shelter door. Days one...
Nobody Can Agree on What a Pit Bull Actually Is
Ask ten people to define "pit bull" and you'll get ten answers. Ask ten shelter workers to look at the same dog and tell you whether it's a pit bull, and you'll get something close to a coin flip. That isn't an exaggeration. It's the finding of a study out of the...
The Lease Says No. Here’s What Actually Works
One of the most common reasons a pit bull adoption falls through has nothing to do with the dog. Someone finds the right match, gets excited, then reads their lease or calls their insurance agent and hits a wall. It's a solvable wall more often than people assume....
