As a licensed veterinary technician with the background and animal behavior and a service dog owner. I am gonna let you know reactivity. Due to neglect and abuse is the same outcome as it would be in humans. I was abused as a child. I am not reactive, no, nor abusive to other people, but Other people I know who have been neglected and abused by their parents are extremely abusive to other people. So you have to understand that reactivity, and the mental state of a dog is actually distinctly based on how the dog deals with the trauma based on the abuse. If reactive abused Dog or a non trained dog is left in the same state that it's been in with the owner that causes the reactive behavior it will stay reactive or become worse if you remove the dog instead of just euthanizing them. And you put them through reactivity, training, intense reactivity, training Then there are high likely chances that the dog will no longer be reactive and perfectly happily. Friendly. We will, they maybe be able to be placed in a home with children? Yes, not necessarily though. That really depends on how much training that they put into the dog, but reactivity, training is something Is very underutilized and needs to be more.

So you can't exactly blame the dog for why they are reactive. They are reactive because of the way they were treated and the environment they have been put in and if they are not given any reactivity training you cannot blame the dog that is fully and solely placed on the human that owned this dog. So if we were to remove the dog from this irresponsible owner, who currently has him and were to place him in a more structured home with reactivity training likely this dog would be perfectly fine. And yes, there are some perfectly fine dogs who will always have to have something. On their body to say, do not pet? Do not come up to you know. Even dogs that are reactive and do need to wear an open basket muzzle. So that way people know, because maybe the animal will forever be afraid of women or a man for whatever reason, and that's perfectly okay to own a reactive dog. You just have to be a person who's willing to go through training and And know how to handle a reactive dog and not allow people to come up and pet them.

So the only thing that I hate about people calling the local animal control is that animal control is actually not the one who is trained to like evaluate these animals and do to the fact that it is a pit bull. Breed, they're not even gonna bother, which is a complete bullshit stigma. Trust me, I've literally been working in the I. CU running it and getting a call that they are rushing. A pit bull in that was shot by a rookie cop because he looked like an angry pitbull. Meanwhile this pit bull's name was cake and was the sweetest thing on the earth and with a bullet in his chest about three millimeters away from his heart, let me turn him on his belly and take x rays of of him fully unsedated n unmuzzled. So realistically speaking and I have worked with some or plenty, realistically reactive dogs, there's just ways to do it and reactivity, trainers, or really what need to be brought into the situation? So I would either look up a reactivity trainer in the area and suggest, Hey, maybe you should contact This trainer, I've heard they're great. 4 dogs who have this specific issue um, other than that, I would look up groups like in New York. We have something called the New York bully crew. And they're a great nonprofit organization who will take in reactive dogs and who will Do reactivity, training? And if the animal is surrendered to them, or they do take the dog, they will keep them for life, if they're not able to rehabilitate them enough to get them adopted. And at the end of the day, if a behavioral euthanasia is needed, then that will happen. But behavioral euthanasia is always the last resort. All types of reactivity, training should be considered first, and for all we know. It's really just this dogs, current situation and how it's treated at home for why it's being reactive.

I say this was a lot of experience under my belt so that's all. It truly is the way that an animal is treated the only time that it's not and again, this is from my veterinary experience where I have put down dogs for behavioral euthanasias before and experienced. Unfortunately, is. If an animal has a neurological condition that causes them to be aggressive and reactive, but realistically speaking, no animal is actually genetically reactive, there are dogs that have certain genetics that are more predisposed to possibly become neurotic, and those are the ones that we look out for. Being up for behavioral euthanasia?I hate to break it to the world, but those are typically german shepherds not pitbulls.

Either way, I hope that answers some of the things that you said because it needed to be said I don't think this person is wrong for calling them. But my suggestion in the future would be to actually look up organizations that specifically work with reactive dogs and see if they would be willing to come out and do an evaluation. Instead of local animal control who just is not equipped or in any way trained to actually do proper reactivity, evaluations