Because a guy was literally in tears asking us to take his 8mo old "pure pit bull". He said the he was afraid the other peoples that wanted her would either try to fight her or leave her outside . He knows how we are with dogs and didn't want her to go anywhere but here with us. He lived with his parents at the time and they have 3 dogs already and there lab was pregnant and the dad wanted to keep one of the lab pups. So told him he had to get rid of her. I think part of the reason was that the guy/kid(19) is too irresponsible to have dog and parents knew it too. Never had one before and wasn't particularly excited about it and stalled for three weeks. Not that I had issue with having and APBT but we had put our 14year old Dalmation,(Diamond)down about 6 months prior and had put our 15 yo Dalmatian(Billy) down about 4 years prior and were very happy to be a single dog family with our grumpy old curmudgeon Nate. Now we have Moka who I am not even sure if she will be staying here or going back to her former residence.I took her to the vet when she got in a argument with one of her house mates( she was attacked) and brought her back here to recuperate. I have NEVER paid for a dog I have had and never will, they choose me, I don't get to chose them. I think that is the only moral way to acquire a dog. Last December 09 I DID buy a dog for my sister---sort of-- she was living with these people and were going to breed her for a second time, and I could tell they didn't truly LOVE her. The only way to get her out of there in a hurry was to pay them for her. So I did the right thing before she could be bred.