Perhaps this will help explain why I am so adamant about rescues.
Rescues can be successful.
About five years ago I too was involved in a rescue. It was a dogo that at seven months of age had already had four owners and was now considered unwanted and disposable to be thrown on the dung heap of human indifference. This gentle soul had no love in his life and no training. He lived in brutal filth and was abused not only mentally but physically. How I came about getting him and from whom is irrevelant.