About Us

Love A Pit Rescue started back in 2007 as Love A Pit Placement Program.  We worked with owners to help them find their loved fur babies new homes.  We did the processing, and background checks for the new homes, and the owners got to have final say so on if they liked the home or not.  That became successful for us.  By the time we took on our first rescues (which was one at a time), in 2010 we already had a name out there for ourselves, and even though it was just a little, we already had some financial support to start.  By the beginning of 2012 with no issues within our community, or the property, as we neared paying off the property, the property owner allowed us to up it to two dogs.

By 2012 and the new threshold of 2 dogs at a time, we were already making a bigger name for ourselves and being asked to help with other dogs.  We began working hand in hand with LCAS on taking dogs from their shelter, and networking dogs for other shelters in the area.    We started exploring a web site and our slogan "Paw in Hand, Together We'll Make A Difference" was introduced. We started building a relationship with Willamette Humane Society and started listing hard to place dogs from their service on our website.   We already had dreams of a bigger rescue then what we had been doing, but we had level heads and knew we couldn't push it too big too fast.

2014 we paid the property off and filed for incorporation.  By mid 2015 we were non profit and on our way to setting up the rescue for full blown operations.  We had 3 dog runs and the panels for a fourth dog run before our 501c3 was in place.  We filed for our Conditional Use Permit for a facility which was quickly shot down by our neighbors, number one complaint, "We don't want Pit Bulls in our community"  (Although they had been here for almost 8 years without a single complaint or issue).

So the rescue was moved into our home, and converted to a pack style rescue, with outside runs for the nice weather seasons.

After 15 and a half years at our old location, a new neighbor moved in, and starting issues for our rescue, it resulted in them going to Department of Planning, and putting some money in their pockets, and us suddenly having "High Soil Value", pulling our permit, and telling us we had 3 weeks to close our rescue.

We sold our property of 22 years, and moved south Of Roseburg, where we have a building for a facility.

Over the last 1 and a half years, we have continued to upgrade from our original setup and improve things for our dogs, within the facility, and have started making improvements for our dogs on the outside as well.

We continue to expand and build on our original dream from our old location, and create here what we have always wanted at our old location.

We have two full sized kennel rooms in our facility, as pictured above, Kennel Room 1 has been fully upgraded to welded wire, and we are pushing to upgrade Kennel Room 2 to be the same.  There is still a lot of work to be done to make our facility fully comfortable for our dogs, but we are functioning at a much higher efficiency rate then from move in date, and we hope to continue to expand.

Blankets, 2 Square meals a day, dog toys, chew bones, and all the other needs and wants a dog could want, to the extras they never knew they wanted.  Late summer of 2014 we introduced a 300 gallon round stock tank as a pool for the dogs.  We built steps for the dogs to get in and out easier, and was donated a pool pump to help keep it clean.  With more support we started getting enough panels for play yards and extra kennels.