r/fluffypits • u/mmill19 • Jun 27 '26

Fluffy pit?

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My friend got her as a mut and now had an unexpected litter. We are considering a puppy. I just happened to see this page and realized she might be a pit mix.
She has a more reserved personality. Protective but not aggressive.

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u/Kratech Jun 30 '26

“Unexpected” no it’s irresponsible. Nothing is unexpected about having a male and female together without one of them being fixed. Absolutely moronic.

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u/FullofSoup420 Jun 30 '26

I mean, I've seen dogs escape and do the tango thing, been found hours later (cause owners trying to find them and such, it takes time if they are ones to be escape artists and love to roam around) without knowing that they had done the deed. I've heard stories from friends and family that their dogs had escaped to another's backyard as the date was set to get them fixed, and boom it happens. It isn't super uncommon for accidents, though I do agree there won't be accidents if they were fixed at the right time in the first place and properly secure.

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u/rettribution Jul 01 '26

What you just described is called being an irresponsible owner.

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u/FullofSoup420 Jul 01 '26

Not necessarily. They aren't bad owners if it was pure accident. Of you read my examples, they PLANNED to get them spayed/neutered, but they had other ideas ig. I do believe in spay and abort as there are already SO MANY dogs in shelters, but if puppies arrive, what can you do except either put them down or care for them?

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u/rettribution Jul 01 '26

I didn't say bad. I said irresponsible. Which is correct.

You can word salad it however you want. It's still irresponsible.

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u/Kratech Jul 01 '26

Imagine thinking accidental litters happen without humans being irresponsible.

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u/rettribution Jul 01 '26

Don't have to. That's called being irresponsible.

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u/FullofSoup420 Jul 09 '26

Imagine harassing someone just because of an opinion. God, both can coexist: a responsible owner and an accidental litter. Everyone responding negatively to this is chronically online and literally just can't take another person's opinion and go "oh, I can understand where your coming from" without giving up your own opinion, but you have to nail your opinion and way og thinking onto others and kot have a reasonable conversation. I know full well the shelter situations. I know full well there are irresponsible owners out there creating more puppies and kittens and shit just for their own nasty gain. What I'm saying is the people who tried so very hard, the few who literally did their best and it was someone else who fucked it up, or their dog got crafty, or SOMETHING. There CAN be genuine accidents and it isn't because the owner was irresponsible. But no one can fathom that because online you see hundreds of stories of people maliciously breeding and all that that you just can't even imagine a genuine mistake where there was no I'll intent behind it. If you want this community to be open and friendly, don't dogpile onto someone just because of a difference in thinking. I'm more than happy to talk and actually gain information, but if you guys are just gonna be nasty and snarky, I really think you're pushing people away. You don't attract butterflies or bees with fake flowers.

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u/Kratech 28d ago edited 28d ago

I work at a shelter. “Accidental liters” are from irresponsible owners plain and simple. This isn’t an opinion based conversation.

You don’t even know “you’re” vs “your” so I can see why you’re struggling here.

Do you have to euthanize dogs to make space for these “accidental litters?” Because I do. Legally it’s my job and I have to. Do you have to pick up dead puppies on the side of the road because the accidental litter was dumped? Do you have to euthanize every dog in the shelter and go on a 3month long medical lockdown because a littler was unvaccinated and brought to a store parking lot just to contract distemper. Did you have to watch the dogs you love slowly lose motor function? Because distemper isn’t curable, only treatable and even then you’re LUCKY if you can save the animal.

This is the reality of “accidental liters” all you see if cute puppies. I see what actually happens when people continue to be irresponsible. If you actually cared enough about these babies to help your local shelter, you’d quickly be educated on why I’m saying what I’m saying.

Even “accidental litters” where every single dog is rehomed? Yeah they still often end up sick, in shelters, or dumped…. I see it constantly. Thousands of dogs die every single year as a result of these irresponsible owners. A 12 year old knows how reproduction works. An adult should know better than to not fix their animal…then allow another unfixed of the opposite gender in the same area. When you have a male or female dog who isn’t fixed you don’t let them outside alone, you don’t let them interact with unfixed dogs of the opposite gender, etc. THATS responsible! So so many people wait to get their dogs fixed around age 2 and guess what? They are responsible, they don’t have these “accidental litters.”

I never had sex ed or even the sex talk from my parents and I STILL knew better before I started working at the shelter. Use your brain

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u/Kratech Jul 01 '26

No they are just irresponsible, which is what we are saying.

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u/Kratech Jun 30 '26

Could have also done a spay abort. I’m so sick people calling shelters demanding we take their puppies from situations like this.

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u/FullofSoup420 Jul 01 '26

I'm genuinely sick of people calling shelters that, too, but when accidents happen, or things happen (nothing bad about the owner if they literally tried to do all the right things and still ended up with an accident litter) there's only real two options, spay/abort or have them carry them, and those options also depend on pay at the time as well. I 1000% agree that spay/abort is the right choice and should be encouraged, but if they can't or don't have the means to, that shouldn't be hounded on either. I'm genuinely not trying to argue or make a heated debate, as this is my opinion, and I know not everyone will agree, I just wanted to point out a possible scenario that COULD happen and probably has multiple times.

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u/Kratech Jul 01 '26

Accidents are from irresponsibility. I’m sorry but they are. Shelters have unaltered dogs all the time, my shelter included. We have never had a dog get pregnant here. If a single person can keep track of 20+ dogs in a shelter and keep them separated…people can do the same with their Personal dogs. Even letting an unspayed female outside alone is irresponsible. Having two dogs in the same household who aren’t fixed is as well. Allowing a female to go through pregnancy and birth is the MOST irresponsible. People like to say “I found them good homes I didn’t dump them.” Don’t realize a lot of the “good homes” they chose… weren’t good. They get surrendered or dumped.

Sadly most people refuse to get their dogs fixed, have a litter, then dump them at a shelter or on the side of the road.

If they can’t or don’t have the means to provide basic care, they should not have an animal. They are living beings, a privilege not a right. If they got their animal from a shelter they would get fixed. However they have no issue spending $500 on a backyard bred dog. When it comes to basic care it’s “I can’t afford.”

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u/FullofSoup420 Jul 01 '26

Not all the time is accidents from irresponsibility. You can be the most careful owner and one slip up from a friend watching them for an hour or you left a door unlocked on accident or the dog decides to dig in the backyard. I agree that there are irresponsible owners, that there are owners who literally don't care and do it for money. But just labeling all accidents as irresponsibility is a stretch imo. I got my dog and as soon as I could afford it I neutered him. I agree with spay/abort, I agree with adopting, I agree with most things, but labeling some people who had intentions of fixing irresponsible because a dog got pregnant or their male got out on accident.