My heart breaks for this family, and not only them but every other family that has had to relinquish their completely innocent animal for no reason. All those families who have had no choice but to sit back and feel their hearts break in a senseless act of discrimination and hate.
They're just dogs, not monsters, but unfortunately they're the dog of choice for monsters. For those sick people who get their kicks by forcing others to do things, these dogs are the best tool.
They're a popular dog, easy to breed easy to sell. They fall into the hands of people who will either use them for their bloodsport to use them just to make themselves look better, while making the dogs look like death machines at the same time. On the other end of the rope there are people out there who blindly love the breed and all breeds similar because I suppose they feel the need to root for the underdog. They buy them and/or adopt them because it's PUNISHTHEDEEDNOTTHEBREED and they have no idea that they're getting an albeit awesome but intelligent, high energy, strong willed DOG, not a stuffed animal. They screw up with their good-heartedness but ignorance and that doesn't do any good for the dogs either.
The popular versions of the dog are the version of them being monsters, and the version of them being plushies, not dogs. Unfortunately the truth, the version most responsible owners would preach, that they're just dogs too, is not the version that's heard. And I think until people are willing to wholeheartedly educate themselves on what they're getting into, the 'pit bull problem' will never be resolved. As long as it's ignorance vs. anger, they'll never be just dogs.
Lennox is one dog among lord knows how many others who suffer the fate that he has. But it will take the popularity and heartbreak of Lennox to help all the others. It will take a single story about a little girl who has lost her best friend to make people start to realize that something like this could easily happen to their own dog if they don't start standing up.
And, while Lennox may be one dog in the spotlight among millions in the dark that doesn't mean he should be shrugged off. He is important too. Those other dogs are important too.
And I'll be honest here, getting off of my little speech, I think this whole time they've been putting this family through torture, Lennox was already gone. It may not be true, but they didn't let the family see him, from what I gather, they're not allowed his things. What if not too long after he was stolen he was PTS or even died in their care and they've spent this whole time covering it up.
