For Lola and all her sisters and brothers

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I'm not one to get preachy on my journal because most of my LJ friends aren't in the same boat as me as far as most of my beliefs go, but just this once I'm asking that people pay attention to this post and take a few minutes to look at things and read what I've written. And if you don't feel like reading everything, please please please just at

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It's absolutely horrible because Cincinnati is one of the cities that has a ban on pit bulls. The shelters won't adopt them out; if they find a stray pit, the owner has 72 hours to claim their dog or it gets put down; if the owner can't show proper insurance forms and all the legal bullshit that is required to have one in the areas that do allow pit bulls, they are fined; pit bulls that are given up ("surrendered") are just automatically destroyed. People won't even come pick up their dogs from the shelters because they would rather their dog get euthanized then have to pay the fines. Sean and I would go to the Clermont County shelter once a week to visit the dogs (this was back before we got Lola and before we were able to adopt a dog), especially the pit bulls, because we knew they were going to die. It broke my heart. I cried every single time I left that shelter. It disgusts me how these innocent creatures are treated. ::sigh::

If I could own acres and acres of land, could build beautiful kennels with huge runs, could feed and pamper every one of them, I would adopt any pit bull I could find. I would keep them all with me until their last day on earth just to save them from life as a fighting dog or being destroyed just because of what they look like.