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RB family adopts dog on TV show Episode can be seen Saturday on Animal Planet Elise said they did not intend to be on the television show, but because 6-year-old Portia A Rancho Bernardo family’s process to adopt — now named Scout — had such a compelling a dog can be seen on Animal Planet’s “Pit Bulls story (she had been found with her dead canine friend who lay in a deep puddle of water), they and Parolees” television show. A rebroadcast of the episode will air at 9 p.m. were asked to appear. “Our whole goal for this is to get people to Saturday, Nov. 16. It was first shown last Saturpay attention, to get these dogs adopted,” Meday on the cable network. The Feyedelem family — mom, Melissa; dad, lissa said. “They’re very misunderstood,” Elise said. “In Mike; 17-year-old Joseph; and 16-year-old Elise — decided to get their second pit bull through the media you hear about (pit bulls) fighting the Villalobos Rescue Center after the first one and being vicious, but they’re really not. If you they adopted from there, a 12-year-old named spend time with these dogs you’ll see they’re Dillinger, died due to a tumor on his heart just loving and great with children.” Four months after Dillinger’s death, Melissa, 11 months after joining the family. Dillinger had been at the rescue center for 10 years before Elise and Joseph traveled to New Orleans to meet several dogs. While there they presented the Feyedelems adopted him. “They gave us the best dog we ever had,” Torres with an additional complication. Not only did the dog Melissa said. have to be mel“Dillinger was the low and quiet perfect match for for Joseph, but our family, so we it had to be OK knew they’d pick around a tortoise, the right one for since they have us again.” an 8-year-old one They learned named PJ at their about the thenWestwood home. Agua Dulce, This meant potenCalif.-based restial dogs had to be cue because its put through a torwork is the focus toise test. of the television Mike, unable to show that shares make the trip last how founder Tia March, said he Torres, her four was confident the grown children trio would pick and the parolees the right dog for she hires give their family. He second chances appears in the epifor a happy life to sode when Portia pit bulls, a breed Elise Feyedelem with Scout, who was called Portia when often feared due they adopted her earlier this year on the television show is brought to their home for the final to their aggressive “Pit Bulls and Parolees.” inspection. reputation. This is Portia was renamed soon after joining the the show’s fifth season. At the time of Dillinger’s adoption, the rescue family. “When our family looked at Portia (in was in the process of moving from California to New Orleans) we hated the name,” Elise said. New Orleans and he was one of the last dogs “It was horrible for a dog. When she came to our house we were sitting around and as a Torres had yet to relocate. Now that they were looking for another dog freshman I was reading ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’ — one that could be calm and quiet enough for She was very curious (hence naming her Scout Joseph, whose autism makes him especially after the main character).” As for being on a television show, the famsensitive to loud noise — Melissa said they felt the rescue would be able to pick the most suit- ily is taking the experience in stride. Elise said they did not find out the episode was going to able dog for them again. “Because of his sensory issues, he does not air until Saturday morning, so there was little like a dog that barks a lot, is high energy or time to tell her friends at Rancho Bernardo jumps all over,” Melissa said. “We have always High. Those who found out “have thought it taken in senior dogs because they are very mel- was pretty cool, even though many had not heard of the show,” she said. low and easy going.”
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