Moonshadow
Super Boxer
another story of a shelter pitbull
On one of my regular visits to our local animal shelter, there were six dogs, all brought in together, that had been used for bait. They were all on a "legal hold" hopefully to get the guys who were fighting dogs. A couple of them were pit bulls (but not all of them). One of the pit bulls was about the meanest looking, stocky, stern faced thing you have ever seen. But . . . if you looked a little closer . . . you could see his tail wagging. I walked over to his cage and he just whined for me to love on him. I talked to the member of the staff standing in that area (probably a vet student) and he said that he was the most gentle and loving dog he had ever seen in there, in spite of the cuts and scratches all over his body.
So it would seem, that even in the worse situations, sometimes you can't break the spirit of a warm hearted animal.
A short Rotti story ~~~~
In my neighborhood, a woman walks a really stocky, mean looking rottweiler. One morning, on the way to take the trash out, he was off leash and the owner was nowhere in sight. The rotti, upon hearing me open the door came running toward me and of course I squatted down. He didn't stop until he got right to me, he licked my face and went on down the road!
Any fear I ever had of rotties is gone!
A guess the old antic "you can't judge a book by its cover" is still good.
On one of my regular visits to our local animal shelter, there were six dogs, all brought in together, that had been used for bait. They were all on a "legal hold" hopefully to get the guys who were fighting dogs. A couple of them were pit bulls (but not all of them). One of the pit bulls was about the meanest looking, stocky, stern faced thing you have ever seen. But . . . if you looked a little closer . . . you could see his tail wagging. I walked over to his cage and he just whined for me to love on him. I talked to the member of the staff standing in that area (probably a vet student) and he said that he was the most gentle and loving dog he had ever seen in there, in spite of the cuts and scratches all over his body.
So it would seem, that even in the worse situations, sometimes you can't break the spirit of a warm hearted animal.
A short Rotti story ~~~~
In my neighborhood, a woman walks a really stocky, mean looking rottweiler. One morning, on the way to take the trash out, he was off leash and the owner was nowhere in sight. The rotti, upon hearing me open the door came running toward me and of course I squatted down. He didn't stop until he got right to me, he licked my face and went on down the road!
Any fear I ever had of rotties is gone!
A guess the old antic "you can't judge a book by its cover" is still good.
I think maybe the judges were trying to prove something, I don't know, I was a kid, I was just excited we got a trophy!!! 
. I miss Crash so much sometimes it hurts, but I know he's in a wonderful place, and he is with us in spirit.