Now this is one happy pit!

Meet Cheyenne.

This sweet little girl was in a shelter that has a very high kill rate, and a shelter that will not adopt pits or pit mixes to anyone. She was brought in with a collar on that had a heavy piece of log chain on it, and three days later she was still wearing the collar and chain. She lost a ton of weight in those three days too because daily feeding isn't a priority in this so called shelter!

Somehow, the fact that she has a lot of pit in her wasn't apparent to the shelter staff, so I was able to adopt this poor girl. The first thing to go was that collar! She has a forever home now, with a wonderful mommy who adores her and is getting her fattened up at an amazing rate. She didn't even spend one night with us, she went to her forever home the same night we saved her from the shelter. She is getting the vet care she needed, and all the good food and love she can take! Just had to share a successful pit rescue, she went from a scared, abandoned dog to a happy member of a family!

And she didn't want to own a pit....

A friend shared a story on facebook yesterday about a heroic pit bull who saved his human mommy from the jaws of death, and the thing that struck me most was that the woman who was saved originally believed all the bad hype about the breed! What a way to prove her wrong!

You can read the story here,  A pit bull named Titan saved his mommy when she suffered from an aneurysm. She was unconscious and her husband, not knowing this, was leaving for the day. Titan would not let him leave! He literally blocked his exit until the man got the point and checked on his wife. She would be dead now if it weren't for this sweet boy who protected her. Way to go, Titan! I am sure his mommy has completely changed her mind about this breed now, and I am sure Titan has many treats and belly rubs in his future!

Welcome!

As a mama to two pit bulls, as well as a rescuer of many more, I have had a chance to really get to know this amazing breed of dog. You could not ask for a more loyal, loving, intelligent dog than a pit bull!

I encounter people on a regular basis who are just disgusted with me, because I have pits and small children. How dare I bring such a vicious animal around my precious babies?? They are right, how dare I expose my precious four legged babies to these vicious, ignorant humans! One of my children learned to walk holding on to the collar of a pit named Fats. He would creep along patiently while she toddled along beside him. When my youngest children are playing, our Dixie is never more than a few feet away, watching over what she considers to be her children. And our Rebel, still a kid himself, is right there playing with them.

And even worse, we are in the middle of forming a dog rescue. Although the business end of the rescue is still in the works, the rescue part is going strong. Since 6,000 pits are euthanized EVERY DAY, there are a lot of them that need help. So there is a good chance that you will find at least one pit or pit mix here at any given time.

I wanted to start this blog as a way to showcase good pit media as well as share stories of pits who have been rescued and gone on to good lives, and pits that need someone to rescue them. And as a way to educate people about this wonderful breed. Our Dixie is an ambassador for our breed, we take her almost everywhere with us, and she has changed many minds about a pit bulls temperament! But it's not enough, it will never be enough, until Breed Specific Legislation is ended and these beautiful dogs can live in peace!