I would just rather not go to the Pound/AC and get a dog. I don't really have time for a dog that can just be a pet.
You don't know what your getting AT ALL when you get a dog from the pound. I don't want a dog with human aggressive parents, and your dog could vary well have HA parent(s) and some of it's parents HA qualities. Also when you look at the dog just because it looks like a Pit bull type dog doesn't mean it is.
I am not trying to argue and I am not trying to knock you rescue people nor am knocking your dogs but they are just not for me.
Sorry, I'm coming into this thread a little late. OP, I respect your opinion that shelter dogs are not for you, BUT I do agree that your reasoning behind it seems a bit ignorant.
I work for a service dog training organization that gets 100% of our dogs from shelters. Our organization's average is a 50% success rate - 50% of dogs we pull from shelters will make it as service dogs - while the average for organizations that breed their own dogs is 20-40%. Last year, I personally pulled 13 dogs, and 4 were released (three of those were released for hip dysplasia, although they showed no outward symptoms and it was not severe enough for surgery).
Now no, I don't expect John Q Public to be able to evaluate dogs as accurately as someone who does it professionally and has years of experience.... as well as a tried and tested evaluation process that has been evolving over 20+ years. AND I think a lot of our success rate has to do with our training methods and procedures, which have also been tried and tested for over 20 years. But to say that shelter dogs aren't good for anything but "just being a pet," or to say that you have NO idea what you're getting when you're looking at shelter dogs, is, IME, just incorrect.
ETA: BTW, I hope to get my next personal dog from a breeder.
Though it's mostly because 1.) I want a puppy, and I don't trust the accuracy of puppy evaluations... and I'm VERY specific about the type of dog I want, and 2.) if I find a dog in a shelter that's exactly what I want, it would actually also make a great service dog and I'd feel guilty about keeping it instead of giving it to someone on our waiting list.