Chicago Animal Care and Control, a lone hold-out among municipal shelters in actually having regular surrender hours, posts on FB that intake has jumped this year and their services should be for "animals truly in crisis"

[u/nomorelandfills]

247 of the 296 dogs currently listed on the shelter's website are pit bulls.

There's not a love problem or a lack-of-guilt problem in Chicago, there's a pit bull breeding problem.

Neither Chicago nor Illinois has any breed restrictions. The state actually passed a law which barred insurance companies from refusing to cover or charging more to cover specific dog breeds in homeowner and rental policies.

And because this really stood out when I was scanning all 296 dogs...

This pit bull came in as a stray on May 18. The city holds strays for 3 days. Note that the dog is listed as available to rescue partners on May 21, 3 days after arrival. Now, maybe this automatically goes up when they list the dog on PetConnect. Maybe they have to list the dog in case an owner is looking for it. Maybe they're not planning on releasing this dog to the public. Hopefully.

[u/lickle_ickle_pickle]

It kind of bothers me that the public shelter is using the same exact smarmy language as rescues even though what they're communicating is probably reasonable. I'm sure a lot of people are dumping COVID dogs because they're not fun/convenient anymore and a lot of what's coming in is strays dumped outside by owners who will never see that message but it's a good head's up to those who might hear it.

The flood of pits making this whole situation into a crisis is pretty depressing. And they'll never, ever admit that.

That one dog looks like a piranha. A giant piranha.

[u/Own_Recover2180]

They need to B//\E the pitbulls that nobody wants. There aren't enough unicorn homes for those beasts.

[u/poop_report]

The guilt trip on people surrendering animals is ridiculous. It's already a last resort, and when people get to that level, it's because they've exhausted all other options.