How one animal can make you see life through their eyes is amazing. Stella my seven month Pit bull pup, misunderstood, but so loved. I had to give Stella up yesterday for many reasons, we have to go back to Hong Kong, our life style does not lend us to have a pet, having a pet and sending them to doggy day care when one travels is not fair, gives the dog anxiety and is not what pups deserve. Stella came in to my life by chance, but she has brought back many feelings of how I felt in my youth. The black sheep, had a bad wrap, misunderstood and misrepresented. Unfortunately Pit bull's have been bought by thugs, drug dealers and punks, that have butchered the dogs ears and tails to make them look mean and given these dogs a bad name. Counties banning them, insurance companies not issuing policies to pit bull owners. They have bread them to fight them to fight them and have been abused for years. My stella, full of energy and full of love! Walking Stella everyday I could see how people reacted to her, they would see her coming and they would cross the street, when all Stella wanted was to be caressed and played with. I realized that this is how black people must feel when many white people cross the street when they see a black person coming.
How people and dogs fall in to stereotypes is beyond me, why cant people give each other the benefit
of the doubt? Stella showed me that no matter how good people are, once you have been labeled you have to work you ass off proving that this label does not apply to you, or you can simply not give a darn if you are human, but if you are a dog or any other animal you need an advocate, and I hope I was that for Stella the short time she was with me, even though my friends and family gave me constant hell for this dog. I will not waiver, Pitt bulls are just like any other dog, show them love and they will give you love, be unkind and you will get unkind. Yesterday my prayers were answered, a young woman came and she was a great fit for Stella and I gave her up. I cried and cried to see this little pup that will struggle for the rest of her life because of the label HUMANS have put on this puppy. I pray that Laura love Stella like I do and that she now will take the role of being her advocate. God's speed Stella, I love you.
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