My thoughts are with you and Leone, may you both have the being and insights due you. The two of you give of yourselves here and at home you deserve the best of outcomes possible.

Well, I think it is sad that the world has come to this. All because of a bunch of ignornant people (nobody here) getting a breed they dont know a lick about, and dont give them what they need. I know Germany has a ban on many dog breeds including Dobies and German Shepherds...Sad, sad, sad. I know of incredibly responsible owers of dogs which are under the bully breeds and their dogs could not be more gentle and well behaved, and yet I know of dog owners who hae under 30 pound breeds (mostly accepted here in the apartment world) which are out of control yappy and aggressive towards any other animal or person. I know of a person who takes pitts out of the ring and works them into search and rescue dogs - this takes a tremendous amount of energy and dedication, and those dogs never go back to being aggressive towards anyone because they are now in the right environment with jobs to do and people to save. I had a heck of a time getting an apartment for my mastiff mix, i had to include a tremendous amount of paperwork including refs from my local humane society's behaviorist, It may be this is out of the managers hands due to insurance regluations. Tho I would ask if she might be willing to work with you on this. If so, I suggest your take your dog into a behaviorist to get it evaluated, and have the behaviorist write the management a letter. You never know what might work. I do think it is a shame there are biases towards these dogs, I also undrestand peoples concern. I know for a fact that many people in southern California bought bully breeds when the Night Stalker was on the prowl, they wanted cheap 24 hour protection - when the guy was caught, alot of people just opened up the gates to their yards and let their dogs (many with behavioral problems) go out to live for themselves in the street. I relaize this is a huge problem, but I fear for the future of these breeds deemed dangerous because they are not brought up in an environment where they get what they need. Any dog can turn viscious in an unhealthy environment or due to health problems...I dont like debating thsi because so many people are so passionate about this - for and against. I wish you luck in your search for a resolution with your dogs, and hope you can find someone or some place willing to work with you. Personally I think every dog should be evaluated on its personality, not its breed.

This is what I do all day long at my job. It would be so much easier if the file size was larger. If your sister did the original drawing then somewhere the original file exists. That would speed things up, otherwise I may enlarge your image and because it is so grainy, what I draw may not match your original art. It looks like a vector graphic that she may have drawn in Adobe Illustrator (a big graphics program), a vector image can be stretched to any size without getting grainy. So if she knows where that file is it would be all that you need.

If a computer doesn't work after the Geek Squad at Best Buy works on it, I wouldn't be surprised. Hubby took his pc there a couple years ago because it suddenly started acting up (I was out of town), and they told him it had over 1,000 viruses on it and wanted several hundred dollars to "clean it." When he called me and told me, I told him to get the pc back from them ASAP. It didn't have any viruses on it at all. The video card had died. Put a new one in and all was well. I do not trust the Best Buy Geek Squad.