What are the Chances.

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information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement,institution, nation, etc.

urban legend

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a modern story of obscure origin and with little or no supporting evidence that spreads spontaneously invarying forms and often has elements of humor, moralizing, or horror: Are there alligators living in the NewYork City sewer system, or is that just an urban legend?

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a story or statement in general circulation without confirmation or certainty as to facts: a rumor ofwar.

Sound familiar? One of the reason's it it so hard to place a Pit in a home is because people are clueless. Not sure of their own formed opinions over the news over using an attack by a Pitbull chained up in someone's back yard with no food or attention. Who is really at fault? Who says they are to blame for their behavior when they were brought up knowing nothing about love and affection. Walking through the humane society knowing that all these amazing dogs are going to have a harder time finding a home just because of all the prejudging. 

It is so sad that no only the dog is being looked down upon, but even I get rude stares and comments just walking my dog. There is no reason to assume any dog is a bad one. Weren't any of these people taught basic rules to seeing any dog? Always ask the owner if it is okay to pet them, never run towards a unfamiliar dog, always put your hand out for the dog to smell you? Pretty positive I learned this at the age of five. 

Take it from me, I honestly could say I was hesitant about getting Amoeba Pit just because I knew I was going to have outside opinions and judgement. But getting to know this dog and just over the months of having her how loyal and affectionate. Maybe we have had our struggles of her aggressive stick and grass eating, I wouldn't trade her the world. Challenge you non-pitbull people who are on the edge, go to a shelter and you'll see that a Pit will be more willing to love five minutes of your time compared to a smaller, loud dog... But really, I love all dogs and can't tell you how much I love to see those animals grow to realize that there is much more to life than being left on the side of the road...  

Finding a Home.

Seems to me that finding a home has become harder and harder with a K-9 friend with all these breed restrictions. Even to be completely honest, I have had to claim my dog is a mixed mutt to my apartment complex because only 'american staffordshire terrier' and other breed that falls under the slang term 'pitbull.' You know the worst part about this, that even certified service animals that happen to be part pit are not even allowed.

Maybe they don't people prejudging their complex? Ironic. 

Being just a college student, even finding myself roommates to be able to afford it. So this is narrowed down, now let alone having a Pitbull in my life. It's getting to that time to find another, much bigger place but I don't know how to get around the breed restriction, let alone trying to find a house to rent. Any dog owner can run into this problem, and if that's the case I have found this link through the humane society for any one that is in this same boat

. Here is the article that seemed uplifting; link.

"Six states are considering bills that would put an end to laws restricting dog ownership by breed. Called "breed-specific legislation" -- or BSL -- these laws most often target pit bull type dogs (which are said to have been called "nanny dogs"), often forcing people to choose between their pets and their homes. And most Americans think they're bad laws. Bad laws!

Opposition to BSL comes from sources as diverse as the American Bar Association, animal rescue groups, the Center for Disease Control and even President Barack Obama, who said in August that the laws are largely ineffective while doing nothing to improve public safety, and are often a "waste of public resources."Best Friends also emphasizes the cost of enforcing anti-pit bull bans; the group commissioned an economist to put together a tool that calculates the costs by city. And here's a sample calculation: In Baltimore, there's an estimated 151,105 dogs, of which 10,918 are assumed pit bull type dogs. The costs associated with enforcing laws against pit bull ownership would be $992,606 per year.

Even though her jurisdiction doesn't have breed restrictions, "people have heard the stories about beloved family dogs being taken from their owners in places where there are full bans on pit bulls. That is every dog owner's worst nightmare," she said. "People don't want to risk it."Getting rid of these laws would not just let people adopt without fear of their animals being taken away, she said, but would also help counter negative stereotypes."

These are the most well put thoughts into uplifting this band on breed restrictions. Just the idea of the city, state and even country with no restrictions could save so much money that we are always complaining about. Maybe this is what we need to get these poor dogs up and out of shelters and into real loving homes.