Dog Fight: Activists Battle Over America’s Shelter Pit Bulls

Dog Fight: Activists Battle Over America’s Shelter Pit Bulls
Merry, a pit bull at the East Ridge Animal Services shelter, greets visitors in East Ridge, Tenn., on April 13, 2022. Jackson Elliott/ The Epoch Times
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EAST RIDGE, Tenn.—Merry, a brown pit bull at the East Ridge Animal Services shelter, is blissfully unaware of the nationwide political battles that rage around her existence.

A beautifully muscular dog, she dashes around the shelter’s visitor enclosure. Occasionally, she leaps to grab a treat from Caroline Smith, an East Ridge animal control officer.