I have first-hand knowledge of the type of people who most often want pitty pups. My niece's 19 year old acquaintance bought a 6 week old pup from the OSPCA. He and his friends were cutting their wrists and smearing the blood into the puppy's face - "to make him mean", he said.

Most fortunately for the pup and society, this young man was incarcerated a few days after getting the puppy.

My niece took the pup in, with the proviso that the dog would thereafter be hers. He was subsequently given his own warm water bed, and raised with all the love and affection you can imagine.

Several years later, a litter of abandoned kittens were found under her porch, and while she bottle fed them, the MALE pit bull allowed them to suckle from him while he cuddled and groomed them.

One happy ending to a story that is most often sad and deadly for dogs.