MIKE & MEGAN

MEGAN started fostering shortly after adopting her pitbull from a shelter. Since then, she has fostered many pitties in need and has learned a lot about in-house dog management, helping a dog adjust, and using force-free training methods on any dog of any age and behavior. She wants each dog that comes into the rescue to get the physical and emotional care needed on their journey from foster to forever. Megan knows the ups and downs that opening your home offers and the bittersweet goodbye. There is an epidemic of pitbulls in need. In order to help them, fosters are needed!

MIKE is hands on with the dogs in the rescue. He starts every foster and adopter off on the right foot with literature, including his favorite book entitled: “A Sound Beginning for a Newly Adopted Dog.”, which leads the adopter/foster through the first two weeks of their transition. Mike doesn’t want to dog just to get adopted – he wants the dog to have the best possible home.

KIM

One day, KIM found a stray dog and took it in. Unknown to her at the time, it was a pitbull and everyone kept asking “Why are you keeping him? He’s dangerous.” However, there was nothing dangerous about him at all, except smothering you at night because he took up the entire bed. Several years later, and upon hearing all the negative media about pitbulls, Kim decided she wanted to do something to help save these dogs from the cruel characterization they receive and help teach the public about them. Kim started foster a pit, and Guinness was her first. He was a special boy with a frustration barrier and afraid o f several things. Kim fell in love with Guinness and with a slow introduction, as well as the aid of the “2 Week Shutdown” program, Guinness and her pitbull, Tiffany, are now the best of friends. Kim ended up foster failing. Since then, she has continued to foster and spends as much time as she can at Chicago Animal Care and Control, giving the dogs love. Kim knows as much as she tries, one cannot save them all. But she knows fostering not only saves the life of the dog, it also opens up space to save the next dog.

RACHEL

RACHEL started working with Peace for Pits in 2013 when she learned the facts about the bully breed epidemic in Chicago Events, Fundraisers and Merchandise: if you have any off-the-wall ideas, she wants to hear them!

SOCIAL MEDIA TEAM

JULIE
Julie joined Peace back in 2017 after falling in love with pitties while volunteering at her local shelter. She helps with keeping the website and adoptable information up to date. She’s also helped with fundraising efforts and has since adopted a pittie of her own and fostered several others!

NOELLE
Noelle joined the Peace for Pits family in 2016 after adopting her own pittie. Since then, she is responsible for coordinating several fundraising & adoption events and for keeping Peace for Pit’s Facebook posts running smoothly!

KARLA
Karla joined Peace for Pits in 2015 as a foster parent. She has fostered several pitties in her time, and has now shifted her talents to being a social media extraordinaire. She is responsible for helping collect and share adorable photos and videos of our adoptables.