Parents for Dog Bite Awareness

It’s time. You’re ready to adopt a dog. You want to rescue a dog 🐕 from a shelter, not buy a puppy from a breeder. You have a lot of love 💕 to give and a home 🏡 ready for your new pooch.

You begin by visiting the social media pages and websites of your local animal shelters. They’re official, legitimate organisations run by loving volunteers, right? You trust them way more than those shady breeders making a buck. 🔥 So you browse the available dog ads, smiling at the adorable faces and feeling your heartstrings ♥️ tugged by the cute messages.

Fudge! How cute! The shelter says he’s sweet and does well with other dogs. He isn’t aggressive or bold, in fact, the shelter suggests he’s a quiet and shy boy. 😊 That’s just what you’re hoping for: a quiet, shy, loving doggo. You aren’t a dog expert or a trained behavioralist and you aren’t an animal rights activist so you don’t notice any of the red flags 🚩 in the ad.

But something happened before you could adopt sweet Fudge.

His innate reason for existing appeared before he made it into an innocent home. He fought with another bloodsport dog and immediately redirected onto the shelter worker when she naively intervened.

“Dog aggression and human aggression are NOT the same!”

That’s what pitbull apologists will scream at you if you express any concern about hereditary genetic traits. Pitbulls don’t like other dogs, they’ll often admit. BUT. They LOVE people! Pitbulls are the cuddliest and sweetest! 🤥

That’s the line they try to hold. They want you to believe that a dog -an animal- created and built to effectively destroy in a pit for decades, will see an invisible line between their target’s paw and your face. 🤡

Fudge didn’t see that line. He mauled the woman so badly that she was airlifted ✈️ to a trauma hospital 🏥 in Dublin and spent 4 days undergoing emergency treatment. She will continue to recover for months at home. 💔

When you find yourself falling for those carefully curated photos and excellent marketing messages on shelter pages, remember Fudge. Let him stand as a reminder that shelters have little to no regulation, oversight, or auditing. They do not have to tell the truth. And they face no consequences for misleading innocent people. 🚨

If you adopt a dog like Fudge and it eats your child, attacks you, or goes after someone in your community, only you will be culpable. The pit trolls online will shame you, not the shelter. The detectives will investigate you, not the shelter. The medical bills will arrive with your name on it, not the shelter’s name. The judge will prosecute you, not the shelter. And you will live with the guilt, not the shelter workers.

They won’t look at the horrific outcome and somehow find a conscience. They’ll simply block anyone who notices. And then keep posting more cute ads featuring pitbulls with puppy eyes for the next unassuming person who thinks she’s going to save a dog. They’ve been doing it for decades.

It’s up to you to end this cycle. Say no. 🛑 Spread the word. Remind your friends to say no. Show up at the town hall meetings and tell your representatives to say no to more tax funding. Demand consumer protection. Vote for shelter regulation and oversight. Call out suspicious and shady ads. ✅

Fudge was nothing more than a pawn in a multi billion dollar industry, feeding not only a financial black hole but also rampant personality disorders and cycles of abuse. His genetics were dismissed. What was right for him took a backseat to what gets likes and $. He paid the ultimate price for a society that refuses to accept him and his fellow dogs as they are, instead opting to exploit them.

In the end, there are only a few winners in this game. And they weren’t Fudge, the shelter worker, or the naive people with large hearts.

Reject Catfishing,

-JL DBA Editor

News article:

https://www.thesun.ie/news/14264292/ispca-longford-woman-facial-injuries-pitbull-attack/https://www.thesun.ie/news/14264292/ispca-longford-woman-facial-injuries-pitbull-attack/

Original adoption ad:

https://www.facebook.com/share/1BeBE9Kmpe/?mibextid=WC7FNehttps://www.facebook.com/share/1BeBE9Kmpe/?mibextid=WC7FNe

ISPCA adopting web page:

https://ispca.ie/adoptions/fudge/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2bKqfcByen1I2bbTGQqRu0_X5nElJWAtw5VrOKgh7h4imyo60fWOqV9zI_aem_DsNSreVSIi4ZOmA-u2DLlQhttps://ispca.ie/adoptions/fudge/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2bKqfcByen1I2bbTGQqRu0_X5nElJWAtw5VrOKgh7h4imyo60fWOqV9zI_aem_DsNSreVSIi4ZOmA-u2DLlQ

A round of applause 👏 to this activist for connecting the pieces:

https://www.facebook.com/share/13qUcbRQwH/?mibextid=JRoKGihttps://www.facebook.com/share/13qUcbRQwH/?mibextid=JRoKGi