No Place Like Home Rescue of Michigan

No Place Like Home Rescue of Michigan No Place Like Home Rescue of Michigan-Rescuing animals and educating the public since 1995 We are run by volunteers who take no compensation.

No Place Like Home Rescue of Michigan is a registered 501 (c) 3 charitable organization dedicated to educating the public regarding responsible pet ownership and canine awareness, supporting senior citizens with their pets, helping homeless dogs and providing aid to spay and neuter animals in low-income cities through our outreach program P.A.M.--Providing Animals More.

11/03/2024

PIT BULLS HISTORY

I find pit bull owners to be the least informed about the breed type they own
By historical and current definition, “pit bull” is an umbrella term, specifically recognizing four breeds.
The Staffordshire Bull Terrier (SBT)
The American Pit Bull Terrier, (APBT) The American Staffordshire Bull Terrier (AmStAff)
And The American Bull Terrier (Ambully, XL Bully)

Their history is twofold.

The bull-baiting, bear-baiting, horse-shredding ‘bulldog’ has existed at least since the reign of Richard III in England (1452 – 1485), when watching ‘bulldogs’ slowly torture bulls, bears, horses and other animals to death was considered normal public entertainment. These dogs were also used to hunt wild boar, not only tracking the boar but engaging directly in killing it, and in dogfighting matches where they were pitted against each other in fights to the death. There were no breed clubs to give these dogs fancy names — they were called simply ‘bulldogs’. The term ‘pit bull’ was an American variation on the same theme, referring to any of the pit fighting bulldog types.

Until the late 19th century, the only pedigree that mattered for any bulldog was its fighting pedigree – the list of kills it had committed on some other bulldog in the fighting pit. It wasn’t until early in the 20th century, as dogfighting declined, that the breeders of these dogs sought other ways to sell them. They turned to the new kennel clubs, which had been established to cater to the upper class hobby of breeding dogs for shows. After much lobbying, the 1930s saw the registration and re-branding of the pit fighting bulldogs by various kennel clubs, always with a name intended to hide the type’s bloody history (eg, changing this molosser’s name from bulldog to ‘Staffordshire terrier’). Since that first deception, many new breed clubs have arisen, dedicated to producing slight physical variation in the fighting bulldog so as to claim a new pit bull type ‘breed’ all their own (eg, American Bully, Pit Bull XXL, Olde English Bulldogge, American Bulldog).

All of these dogs in fact come from the same limited gene pool, all of them retaining both the physical and the behavioral traits that have always typified the fighting bulldog. Pasting a new ‘breed’ label on yet another slight variation of the pit fighting bulldog does not change this fact.
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10/28/2024
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It’s “Pit bull Awareness Month”We are aware!
10/16/2024

It’s “Pit bull Awareness Month”
We are aware!

...according to pit bull advocates, animal shelters and rescue groups that promote pit bulls as safe pets. At the time of this post, we are only halfway through October and there have already been three human fatalities and multiple severe injuries requiring hospitalization as well as beloved pe

12 pack of pit bulls…
10/12/2024

12 pack of pit bulls…

MARION COUNTY, Ind. – A pack of dogs attacked a mother and three of her kids outside of a Marion County daycare. And it is not the first time those same dogs have wreaked havoc on the neighbo…

10/07/2024
Another hoarder “rescue” …
09/28/2024

Another hoarder “rescue” …

More than two dozen dogs and several cats were removed from a home in Pontiac.

09/20/2024
09/17/2024

Pit and run… Typical pit bull owner behavior. Selfish, delusional, criminal.

09/16/2024

TWO LIES THAT KILL DOGS

We call them "Man's Best Friend," but if any other friend pi**ed and crapped in the house, yelled loudly early in the morning, stole our food, hu**ed our leg, ate p**p, and then tried to kiss us, we would brick them in the head in short order.

Of course, it's worse than that.

Not only are a lot of people very unhappy with their dogs, but a lot of dogs are unhappy with their people.

Every year, millions of dogs are acquired by folks who say they "love" them, but these same people turn around four, six, or nine months later and then abandon them.

These abandonments are not an accident -- they are the product of a generalized lie and a specific lie.

The generalized lie is that everyone (and certainly every family) needs a dog.

Not true.

The harsh truth is that in this jam-packed world, increasing numbers of people do not have the yard, schedule, time, finances, or temperament to live well with a dog.

The specific lie is that all breeds are the same.

This is the lie that flows like water off of the lips of the Pit Bull community which chants "deed not breed" as if indoctrinated into a cult.

The simple truth is that why NO dog is the right choice for a lot of people, a Pit Bull is the wrong choice for MOST people.

It is not an accident or random chance that half of all the dogs abandoned to their death in this country are Pit Bulls.

"There was a large-scale rescue where there were over 70 Pomeranians in a home,"
08/21/2024

"There was a large-scale rescue where there were over 70 Pomeranians in a home,"

The Humane Society of West Michigan rescued several dogs, including one pregnant one from this case.

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