years of listening to our children beg and plead with us to get them a puppy

dog, my husband and I finally gave in. We decided to adopt a dog from the

near by animal shelters. We had a particular dog in mind already. We were

bound and determine that we were going to look for a Golden Retriever.

After several attempts, we had failed to locate this particular breed, my

husband suggested that maybe we look at other breeds in general. We all

agreed that the dog we were going to get had to be friendly, loveable, and

cute and very good with children (since 2 of our children have previously

been attacked by a dog, but what we found was a Pit Bull who has been

misunderstood from the beginning of time.

On that Sunday, we got into our car and went back to the San Martin

Animal Shelter to pick up our new addition to our family Chance, the Pit

Bull. The perfect family dog but what we didn't know was all the sadness

that goes with owning a pre-stereotyped breed and the assumptions made by

society about the "KILLER PIT BULLS".

At first it was a difficult transition for everyone in

he commenced to kick my dog. At this time, Chance was so afraid that he

house, I could hear her telling Kelly, my daughter, that she was calling the

my neighbor, who is a good friend, screaming at the top of her lungs, at my

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