Our 2025 4th Quarter Beneficiary is:
American Pit Bull Foundation
$1 from every product sold from October 1st - December 31st will be donated to American Pit Bull Foundation.
It all started with a Pit Bull named Nana. In 2005, Sara Ondrako worked as a veterinary nurse where a blind Pit Bull named Nana was brought in by her owner requesting her to be euthanized as she had developed epilepsy. Though her condition was controllable with medication, her owner did not want to be bothered with administration. He also refused to surrender her because "she wouldn't be comfortable with anyone else aside from him". Not short of effort, the staff was unable to convince her owner that she could lead a happy life with another home. This heart ache sparked Ondrako to register her rescue with the local shelter as Nana's Rescue to honor Nana in saving the lives of others through the shelter.
After years of rescuing countless Pit Bulls, Ondrako found herself drowning in rescue after rescue with not enough financial support to take on the hefty case load. With this burden the hard decision to discontinue was emanate and Nana's Rescue closed intake permanently. Shortly after, Sara was recruited as a seat on the Board for the American Pet Cross, to which Sara's focus naturally steered towards Pit Bulls. She concentrated efforts on rehabilitating a community raised with dogfighting and worked on the End Dogfighting Project. When the founder of the American Pet Cross tragically passed away, the organization collapsed as well.
Motivated by her friend who could no longer continue his mission, and determined that there was a better way to attack issues surrounding animal welfare, Sara brought American Pit Bull Foundation to life.
Her organization would focus on why so many pit bulls were abandoned, abused, neglected, and surrendered at animal control facilities, and would derive and implement solutions to those problems. The organization would provide outreach and education and would assist those in need that were behind potential surrenders. Instead of taking on problematic dogs and allowing for owners to simply turn around and continue the same mistakes with another dog, this organization would start with the owner. Find and understand the reason for such easy, (and not so easy) disposal of family pets. Teaching compassionate care and the value of companion animals. Focusing on solving those issues could in turn, and has since, decreased the number of dogs that are surrendered due to solvable issues and therefore decrease the number of adoptable dogs that are unnecessarily euthanized.
In 2011 The American Pit Bull Foundation was awarded 501c3 non-profit status.
The American Pit Bull Foundation was created to not simply rescue and take in pit bulls; we take in owners as well. We are just as much human advocates as we are canine advocates. Domestic dogs are dependents and to provide the best life for domesticated animals, we have to understand the role their human-counterparts play.
Responsibility and accountability are the backbone of our teachings. It takes a community to solve community problems and we feel very strongly that it is the responsibility of the community as a whole to lend positive impact and influence on tackling the issues that we face together as a society.
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