Meet Phoenix. Our sweet, sweet boy who we decided to foster from the same shelter we got Ellie. You may notice his poor ears. When he was about 5-6 months old- some cruel, awful people cut his ears off with scissors and then abandoned him. Our guess is they were trying to make him a "fight" dog and he just wasn't cut out for it (Thank goodness!) He was adopted out to a girl in September who just didn't really love him and brought him back to the shelter. I was keeping a close eye on this guy because how can you not love him?! Then around February, he was adopted out again to a family that had another male Pit and kids in the family. The family's male pit kept trying to kill the poor guy so they brought him back again. This is where I hit my breaking point, because he just couldn't catch a break. We went down to the shelter to look at potential "fosters" and to my surprise we came home with Phoenix. I really did go into it looking at him as JUST A FOSTER. I knew Dan wouldn't let me keep him because that was part of the agreement to letting me foster another. However, he stole our hearts within days. He should be the poster dog for pitbulls. Sooo sweet, sooo loving, never makes a peep, and just loves everyone. That surprised me because after the awful things that have happened to him, you would think he'd be aggressive and mean but there isn't a mean bone in this guy's body. After fostering him for only 2 weeks, we decided today that we were going to adopt him :)
Now for his ears... they have healed completely! The picture above was taken when he first went into the shelter last fall. Here is our handsome boy now.
Much better! Right?
Who needs kids? We have 3 dogs and I LOVE them ALL!!
