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Generally we murmur against unneutered dogs that are the reason for large stray dog population in the capital city, or against the serial dumping of pets on the street as a no longer needed item. Well, this case is slightly different.<\/p>\n

Dick is one curious 9 year old torso, which looks almost authoritative with its breed when you see him, but the moment he jumps on you to lick your face, somehow you forget that this should be a pit-bull breed \u2013 the scary one that makes people surround him from far while on a walk. Well, we\u2019re prejudiced and probably this is the reason why the pit-bull Ziggie, Glady<\/a> and Pencho<\/a> can\u2019t find their own person yet so long.<\/p>\n

The story of this glorious hippo is the following \u2013 nine long and happy years he was looked after at home. The couch is his \u2013 not that he doesn\u2019t share it, on the contrary \u2013 he is dealing quite well occupying just half of it when someone else is sitting there. However, a person that does not like animals needs more than that.<\/p>\n

His owners take home the mother-in-law during the winter and the same couch becomes her bed. Dick was totally OK with that, but the mother-in-law was not. He would jump on the couch and she would chase him away and yell at him all day long making him feel unwanted. Finally, the owner issues an ultimatum \u2013 you either re-educate our 9 year old dog, which has been looking after our couch all his life, to stop doing this, or remove him from our house! So what do you think the owner does? \u2013 He starts to regularly beat Dick in order to break his habit\u2026 But how could the boy understand that something he\u2019s been doing all these years is suddenly wrong and forbidden!? That\u2019s hard\u2026 and on top of that, he hits him with a stool! This is how, one wonderful day, during the serial beating, the boy was not staying stunned while the hitting was getting harder, so he bites the stool, with which they hit him. And \u2013 that\u2019s it! He is aggressive, dangerous, stupid, and not obedient to me \u2013 therefore I don\u2019t want him in my home. However instead of finding him a new home or a different solution to the problem, the owner decides that he would euthanize a healthy, energetic dog that did not deserve that in any way. So they brought him to us, we refused, and they left him in the shelter.\u00a0 At first he was very worried and anxious, but he is relaxed now and is absolutely adorable, sweet and affectionate.<\/p>\n

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Since he was looked after in a home for so long, he is totally domestic, and ever since he is with us, he occupies the rests room, where the staff eats and Dick is getting attention on a regular basis. Besides that, he has won not one and two hearts of the volunteers who come in the shelter.\u00a0 Perhaps you probably understand that this is not a way to look after a dog, however, and Dick needs a real family \u2013 with a large couch and a solid owner, who can hold him on the leash during walks, although we have noticed that he listens to the caregivers and doesn\u2019t pull that much.<\/p>\n

If someone is interested in the boy, you\u2019re welcome to see him in the shelter personally!<\/p>\n

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