Volunteer

We are always looking for more dog lovers to help with the day to day running of the rescue. We need people for everything from transporting dogs to performing homechecks. We could use all the help we can get! Volunteer now!

To follow are just a couple of the ways you can jump in:

  • transport from shelters to foster homes
  • transport to and from veterinary visits
  • transport to and from adoption events
  • dog walking - you are an ambassador for the breed when you are out and about with one of our well socialized fosters
  • set up and take down for events
  • help on one of the committees for whatever they need - events, fundraising, foster, web...

The other most telling way that you volunteer your support is by the way in which you live your own life.

Bite Your Tongue

If you get negative or angry comments from people about your dog, please do not lower yourself to their level by being abusive or rude. These people do not know what they are talking about, and by responding in a similar manner, you are only reinforcing their mistaken convictions about the kind of people that own Pit Bulls.

Restrain and Contain your Dog

We cannot stress this enough. Please make sure that your fence is high enough and strong enough to contain your dog. He may be an absolute sweetie with your cat, but you don't know how he feels about the one next door. If he does get out and kill something, it's your fault, and it can only add to the bad press that the breed already receives.

Also, please abide by leash laws. They are there to protect your dog as well as those around him. If he gets attacked by a Jack Russell and retaliates, the fault will probably be ascribed to the Pit, even if it wasn't his fault. Please protect your dog.

Don't Breed or Buy

Have you taken a look in your local shelter lately? A huge percentage of homeless dogs are Pit Bulls, precisely because of their reputation. A recycled dog is just as good as a dog who comes with papers galore and blue ribbons streaming from its neck. Unless you are planning on showing the dog, there is little point in buying from a breeder who may well only be doing it for the profit. When you adopt a dog from a shelter, you are giving a dog who was not wanted a second chance at life, and maybe a first chance at a loving home. Why pay upwards of $500 to get a pedigree dog when you can pick one up from the shelter for less than $100? (My Boscoe cost me $60). By buying from a backyard breeder, you may well be getting a dog with many health problems - these people are in it for the money, not for preserving the integrity of the breed - they are not concerned about genetics at all. The most common reason people give for not wanting to adopt a dog from the shelter is that 'they don't want a dog that someone dumped because the dog had problems'. People don't just give up their dogs for problem behaviors... they give them up for many reasons.... and training a puppy is harder than training an adult dog.

Please Don't Litter

Spay or Neuter your dog. Back to the shelter issue - backyard breeders produce all these puppies hoping to make a quick buck, and when they find that this is not always the case, the puppies end up at a shelter, if they are lucky.

You may think that your fence is too high for your dog to get over, but what about someone else's dog? Do not underestimate what a dog can do when the mood is upon them! Be responsible. Are you going to carefully screen all the people who want to adopt all the puppies that your pregnant dog is going to have because a mutt got over the fence? Probably not. Are you going to take them to the nearest shelter? Probably. And therefore you are possibly condemning them to death (shelters are not conducive to the health of small puppies), and you will certainly be making our job as a rescue harder. If you love your dog, prove it. Take care of him or her.