User:Bjkketch

I just had an experience I never want again. And I would like others to know. We had a pitt bull dog whom we named yukon. We had him for 3 years. Monday he was let outside and he jumped the fence. Our daughter was here and as soon as she seen him do it she went after him. She could not find him. She looked over at some apartments that are across the street from us and she asked some children there but they did not see the dog they said. She went up the road across the tracks nearby and asked some children there and they said no. She went a little further up the road and did not see him. She came back to the house and seen that he was over the neighbors house and they had a shot gun on him. My daughter said she called him to come home and these neighbors told her don't you call him, don't you dare call him. She did and he came home into the house and up the stairs to her room. The neighbors called 911 and 5 police cars, the fire department, and the ambulence came. The dog warden also came. They (the dog warden and a police officer) told my daughter to go outside and they would take care of this. Now mind you they did not ask if they could enter the house they just said go outside. My daughter is 37 years old and does not think rationally. So these people enter my home while I am at work and proceed to go upstairs and there is no barking or any kind of a scuffle. They bring my dog down with his mouth bleeding my daughter says. They say he needs to held for 10 days to see if he is rabbid. I can tell you and so can east shore vetrenarian that he is not. My son who is 20 dearly loves this dog. He finds a friend to adopt yukon when they release him. But, the berrien county animal shelter tells him that the has expired. Disbelief and shock and a very BIG disappointment sets in. I myself have never been attached to any animal but this dog I did. I as a pet owner and a mother cannot get over how all this was very mishandled. I was not here but it is my belief that when they went upstairs they harmed that dog to the point of experation. They at first want to hold the dog for 10 days and the next day the dog is dead. I believe that was animal cruelty by the hands of the berrien county law.

This dog never hurt any body and loved children. We did not want a mean dog and pitts have a bad reputation. Not all pitts are bad. Yukon was never mean and he was a people dog and for that to happen to him is unspeakable.

I don't know if any thing can be done about this-probably not. But if you have a pitt and you love him or her don't let him/her leave your yard because the berrien county law will very definetly kill him/her. We are all so very sad. We will always see images of yukon.