Applying for a mortgage is often not as difficult as adopting a dog. I've seen places not want to place dogs with people that had to leave their homes to go to work. Granted there's a lot more remote work happening now but this was precovid. Some of them had such impossibly high standards that it would have excluded almost everyone on the planet. Not sure why someone with a job is worse than a dog living in a shelter.

They do a lot of rescue work in Waterbury (hence the name Brass City). Plenty of irresponsible pit owners there. And of course when little Becky and her family are out shopping the shelters for a dog I can tell you which dog they aren't going to pick so Pits stay a lot longer in shelters.