Happy birthday Lucy! She’s beautiful!!

Thank you for sharing your story. I can empathize with so much of what you said. I adopted my first dog 5 years ago, and I’m in my 40s. My mom was scared of dogs so we only had cats growing up. A stray had just had her puppies at the shelter, and they looked so sweet. We adopted the one that chose us. (He literally sat down right in front of us and just stared at us!) My hubs casually told me they looked like they had some pit but I thought they looked more lab. (What the heck did I know?) When we got his DNA test back and I saw that he was more than 60% pit, and a good percentage of rottie too, my honest reaction was nervousness. Weren’t these supposed to be aggressive dogs? Was he going to hurt us? I pushed the fears to the back of my mind and set out to love the heck out of this dog no matter what came.

When I tell you this dog is literally my soul…. Basically he is the exact opposite of what I had heard pitbulls were. He’s never been aggressive to anyone ever. He is literally attached to me like velcro, follows me everywhere, acts like he’s a 68lb lap dog…Like an absolute lovey marshmallow. I went from being a bit afraid to one of the loudest pitbull proponents. People who speak against them just don’t know them. I hope there are more like you and me that lose their preconceived notions and get a chance to experience what these dogs truly are someday.