$20 spay/nueter for Pit Bull type dogs

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Originally Posted by subject2change

But, if your family adopts, say 5 dogs from the shelter, that's 5 lives that are saved, and 5 kennel spaces that open up to save 5 more dogs. Just a drop in the bucket with literally thousands of pit bulls being put to sleep every single day in this country, but just think if more people start making that choice....
Think about it, shelters wouldn't offer such extremely low prices for pit bull spay/neuters if there weren't such a surplus of pit bull puppies!

100% agree. There is NO shortage of cute pit bull puppies out there that your family could adopt and love, no need to create more. Seriously, it doesn't matter who you're giving or selling the pups to, you would still be a BYB. Ask yourself what is so great about your dog that justifies breeding her. 8 month old is too young to have gotten her the barrage of testing needed to make sure she is 100% healthy (IIRC, you have to wait until the dog is about 2 years old for some of those tests). Is your dog a champion show dog? Aced any field tests? Some sort of therapy dog prodigy? What about the other dog, can you say the same for them? If someone in your family can't keep the dog, are you willing to take it in and keep it forever? Are you willing to make sure they don't follow suit and breed their own pup to give out to other family members (if you dog has 8 puppies and each one of your family members decides to breed their pups and those pups had 8 puppies each, that's 64 pit bulls in less than 3 years. There are shelters out there that euthanize that many pit bulls a WEEK!! That's not even accounting for any male pups who may sire more than one litter at once!).

Take you family to the local pound or animal shelter and have them pick out a pit bull pup as great as yours, I'm sure there will be plenty to choose from.

As to the other part of the post, there's a shelter in Chicago that will neuter pit bulls and pit bull mixes for free that we took Bella to. Granted, you must pay the neuter fee upfront when making the appointment (it's about $100) and the dog must be fully vaccinated, but once the vet sees that your dog is a pit bull/pit bull mix, the neuter fee gets refunded back to you. It's a great option, but sadly, I know for a fact that some low income pit bull owners can't even afford this upfront fee or have the credit card/major debit card needed to pay for it online, so it's still not an ideal option.

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Just one litter and keeping them all. Would all of those pets be spayed and neutered? Our animal control facility is almost exclusively filled with pitbulls. I saw the "urgent" listing of 6 in danger because of overcrowding and 5 were pitbulls. Over 90% of the pitbulls going into the shelter are euthanized. Still everyone wants a pitbull puppy until they realize that puppies don't just grow into not chewing, being housebroken, etc. and then, they don't want a puppy. They also don't think about what the unneutered male is going to be like when there is a female dog in heat in the neighborhood. It happens with all breeds but the pits are much less likely to be adopted. Pet dogs should be spayed/neutered.