annamarie, honestly I am not disagreeing with you on this one. I said pages back that I don’t agree with the hand or most of the testing, especially right after they come in. My point is that for the pits there is a LOT to consider before one can be adopted out. Are there BSL’s in place where the adopters live? Will their homeowners insurance allow a pit (or a couple other breeds) Are they familiar enough with the breed to be able to handle it. There are several breeds in that catagory. I am saying they are extremely difficult to place & 85% of them are not safe to be out in the public anyway. Dogs that have been fought or appear to have been fought – automatic euth – cannot be placed. I realize the dog in question was a boxer & since I didn’t see it, I can’t second guess what may have happened. Often difficult decisions must be made very quickly if there are 20 more standing at the door waiting to come in.

Suebgone..NO DOG HAS LOCKING JAW!! there is no locking mechanism in there look at a few skull and tell me where it is! they were bred down from mastiff types and jack types…jack and rats have just as strong a jaw in relation to their size as a pitty…the reason pitty are more dangerous is becuase of their size. the hold can be broken just like any other dog… and yes in some cases i belive that personality is genitic..but that doesn’t mean that all of them are bad…look at my other posts on the other thread…and I don’t know where you got your info, but 85% of pit are the good one…here we have a high population of pits and pit mixes…I have yet to meet a truly mean one and yes I was bit in the face by a pit in my grooming salon..my fault he didn’t like people right in his face or his nails clipped and I accidentally got to close to his nose while clipping his nails.. and guess what? No blood no bruise it was an accident. while I will not deny that there are problem dogs out there and idiots who do breed them for bad temperments that is NOT the breeds fault in general. while I may respect you intelligence and experience…I think the years you spent working as an ACO has colored you opinion of this breed. for every one that bite or is taught to be mean there are dozens more who are wonderfull loving dogs who are wrongfully dumped in with the rest.

Yep I agree, Boxer should still be with us…

I was watching over a lose stray female Rottweiler end of Feb. She was a beautiful dog, approx one year old. I didn?t want her to get run over, she was next to a busy street and right in front of my house. So I called the Humane Society. While waiting she got restless. I went to my house got some food to entice her to stay. In the process of feeding her tooth caught my finger as she closed her mouth on the food. Finally the Humane Society arrived. I made a huge mistake although you?d think it wasn?t. I reported to the officer that the dogs tooth cut my finger (ON ACCIDENT). The officer told me I would need to call it in. I did so concerned that maybe the dog never had shots being a stray and all. I weighed on the safe side and requested the dog be quarantined. I explained over and over the story, that the dogs tooth cut my finger but no intential effort to bite.
Two weeks later I received a notice in the mail stating good news the dog was fine, "we are pleased to inform you that this animal has been examined, found normal and released from quarantine". BS!
That was it, no description of what happened after being released so I called wanting/hoping to find out the dog found its owner. Instead the officer I spoke with came back to the phone and told me the dog was put to sleep!
This dog was not vicious, was not mean, yes she was a tiny bit nervous but nothing out of the ordinary. I have to live with the fact that I killed her now. I can?t do a thing about it either!

No, the potential to get rabies was there…cant play around with that! Open cut, saliva, hello? But for those who want to ramble on about "well then I shouldnt have been messing anyway" I disagree as well, I had an obligation and responsabilty to deal with the dog.
Everything I did was acceptable, the problem was at the other end …But let this be a word of warning, when dealing with a cold blooded outfit that kills for biting a boxer etc biting fake hand. We are dealing with professional ingnorance within. After posting that message a couple of dogs ran buy at same spot. I made no call…
Two weeks earlier my female rott scaled the fence, two guys in a big fuel truck pulled over read the phone number on her tag and I got my dog back. Unfortunaltly no colar so no tag on this dog. Basically I gave the humane society an excuse to destroy a dog on the black list and thus save them money waiting to adopt her out.