Unit 4 Animal Rescue

This week I am choosing a topic that is close to my heart, animal rescue, in particular the touchy subject of pit bull dogs. I understand peoples fear of these animals, and everyone is entitled to their own opinion on the subject. I feel the pit bull has been given a bad reputation due to the ignorance of people who choose to fight animals.
My first memory of having a pet as a child is my father bringing home a little puppy to me, I was 4 or 5 years old. I had no idea this puppy was a pit bull dog and neither did he. I named him Tiger because he had stripes like a tiger. Tiger and I spent many happy hours together playing in the yard and him chasing me as I rode my bike. He passed away when I was 12 years old, he never bit anyone or even acted like he wanted to. In my early twenties I was blessed with another pit bull, I gave birth to two daughters and Rascal loved both of them. Unfortunately he was run over by a car when he was 4 years old. I didn't have a dog for awhile after that. Then when I was going through a very rough time in my life, my neighbor raised pit bull dogs and his female was having distressed labor, it was her first litter. I climbed in the dog house with her on that snowy day Dec. 18 2002, and helped her give birth to five beautiful little puppies. Her last pup was a beautiful little buckskin girl, the runt. I fell in love with her. We lost one of them within 24 hours, a little boy. The rest of them were fine at first, but about a week later, the mother stopped feeding the little runt. I couldn't stand for her to die, so I took her and hand fed her. My neighbor gave her to me and her sister to my daughter. I named her Buttercup, she was a great dog, she became a house dog. When my grandson was born, everyone kept telling me to keep that dog away, and all the horror stories about pit bulls eating babies. Buttercup loved my grandson and it turned out no one could get near him if they weren't family. She was his gaurdian. I would just like to let everyone know that it all in how the animal is raised, not the breed. Please don't pay for a dog, adopt an animal(no matter what breed) from a rescue or pound, they will give you more love than you could ever imagine. I have a friend here locally that runs an animal rescue, if you would like more information on adoption, I would be happy to help you.