Some People Give Me Nightmares

Oh yes you are!!!!---different that is than the general public. The range of people out there looking for dogs is staggering. Granted most are good hearted people. I used to work as a controller for a manufacturing plant that employed.....cheap labor. Okay, translation, people who were not incredibly bright or kind hearted. Now don't anyone get offended, some of these people were great hard working people who earned very little money because they didn't complete high school (but were still smart and hard working), but some of them deserved the low pay they got, in fact, in my opinion they were paid too much. One such employee lit himself on fire with gasoline one day just to see how quickly it would get out of control. Burnt himself pretty bad, and he wasn't fired. Anyway, another of his ilk went out one day looking for a dog. Imagine my horror when he said he went to Sterling Animal Shelter where I was currently volunteering. This is a shelter that does minimal screening, but they do require proof of house ownership or landlord approval. He was denied and pissed, and eventually gave up his quest. "Fire boy" was successful in his quest (went to a different shelter but he may have had landlord permission). Got a lovely pit bull. Thought it was funny when the dog got all protective of him with his friends, dog bit several of his friends (while "Fire Boy" laughed at the antics), and finally one bad enough to be put to sleep. I saw this person's (Fire Boy) interaction with the dog, and the dog only did what he was taught to do. You may mean something different then screening processes. In my opinion the local shelters around here do not have adequate screening processes. Some of these dogs come out of a bad situation just to land in worse. You can never guarantee that a rescue will get the right home, but shelters can do their best with the budgets and staff constraints as far as I am concerned. Even the good hearted people sometimes have not aquired enough knowledge to adopt certain breeds or temperments.