Save the pitbull pen!

URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT: The Pit Bull Pen facility is at risk of closing its doors Benton city wa 99320. 

From our executive director and founder:

Fear, disappointment, heart break, grief surfacing, disbelief, loss… it’s been a rollercoaster of emotion. I know the rumors are flying and I was hoping I didn’t have to go here but I don’t want my rescue to suffer for my misplaced trust.

After putting 15 years and tens of thousands of dollars, both mine and the rescues, into this property and building a rescue organization literally from nothing but a need to help dogs find better lives and live happy. Blood, sweat, tears and broken bones have gone into this process over the years and a lot of tough lessons however this is the toughest lesson of my life.

I am being forced to leave my home, the place I built into my sanctuary, where I have lived for 15 years, built a building where I planned to start another automotive business after my divorce, in a town I didn’t want to live in but now belong to the community, where I planted grass, built fences, installed the underground sprinklers and repaired them every time the dogs broke them… where I upgraded everything until it became satisfactory. Where my dogs have resided their entire lives and where thousands of rescue dogs have passed through. Where litter after litter have been born and a few dogs have died including my very first pittie that gave me the reason to create a rescue to protect thousands of others from his fate.

I trusted my family members to have my back, to protect me from the abusive past relationships I was fighting to get away from for so long. When my mom became sick with Alzheimer’s I didn’t feel it was appropriate to ask about her final arrangements with the property she was helping me with so she knew I would be ok and have something to leave my daughter when that time comes.

After being served eviction papers that I was able to get stayed, I am not sure what the fate of both myself and The Pit Bull Pen rescue will be. Every single resource that I’ve had has gone into this place and the rescue, I don’t have other options and the property owner is someone I have trusted my entire life so there’s some feelings to deal with but more than personal relationships dissolving are the feelings of fear for the rescue dogs being at risk of euthanization if he is able to proceed with what he is trying to do in order to profit off my rescue and my hard work.

Moving is not an option, he wants too much to buy what I’ve already paid for 100% and him not abiding by the deal my mother and I worked so hard on is sickening… I am trying to process and remain positive and praying for a solution.

Our mission is to rescue dogs at risk, advocate for the breed, and educate the public about the true nature of the a pitbull that is properly raised in a loving home.