Angel City Pit Bulls
Our Mission
Angel City Pit Bulls is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to creating a better future for pit bulls. We promote their positive image as loving family companions through education, public advocacy, thoughtful adoptions, and community owner support.
Why We Started
Founded in 2010, we grew from a group of dedicated pit bull fans into a supportive village working to address the overpopulation and high euthanasia rate of pit bull terrier type dogs in Los Angeles. As an integral member of the NKLA Coalition, we believe our city can be a community where no healthy or treatable pet dies for lack of space.
How We Operate
We are a foster-based organization, meaning our dogs live in temporary homes where they receive love, socialization, and structure until they find their permanent match. Because we operate entirely on the support of volunteers and donations, we can focus our resources on the veterinary care and nourishment that many of our rescue dogs require upon arrival.
The Adopter Connection
Welcoming a new dog into your home is a rewarding journey, and we are here to support that bond. Our foster parents and volunteers provide essential life lessons and care, helping each dog transition successfully into their new life with you. When you choose to adopt from our program, you are not just gaining a companion; you are joining a collaborative village dedicated to the well-being of these amazing dogs.
Join Us
Whether you are looking for a new family member or want to get involved, we invite you to explore our available dogs to find your perfect match. If you are ready to make a difference, you can learn more about fostering, volunteering, or making a tax-deductible donation on our website. Together, we can educate, advocate, and celebrate the incredible spirit of pit bulls in Los Angeles.
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SilverRated Sep 8, 2026
NonprofitVerifiedFoster-BasedOperating 10+ years
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10/12 - 💔 PLEASE KEEP JELLYBEAN IN YOUR THOUGHTS. SHE NEEDS US RIGHT NOW. 💔 On Saturday evening, our team noticed that Jellybean wasn’t her usual energetic self. By Sunday morning, things had taken a turn. She had no energy, no appetite, and looked downright miserable. 😔 We’ve been struggling to find this sweet girl a foster home, and unfortunately, the kennel environment has made it difficult for her little body to fight off a respiratory infection. We knew she needed medical attention, and as it turns out, Jellybean knew it, too. 🥺 The moment we told her we needed to take her to the vet, she walked over and waited by our doors for her ride to arrive. We can only imagine how she was feeling, but she was ready to go and let us help her feel better. ❤️ Jellybean is now at VCA West Los Angeles, where she was diagnosed with severe pneumonia. She spent the night receiving IV antibiotics and fluids, and we’re hoping that with the care she’s receiving, she’ll start feeling like herself again soon. 🙏 But Jellybean needs more than medical care. Once she’s ready to be discharged, we desperately want to find her a foster home where she can rest, recover, and finally get out of the kennel environment. She deserves a soft place to land and someone to remind her that she’s safe and loved. 🏡💕 Medical emergencies like this come with significant costs, and we need our community’s help to cover Jellybean’s hospital bills. 💗 Please consider donating toward Jellybean’s medical care. Every contribution helps us provide the treatment she needs and continue showing up for dogs like her when they need us most. Please share her story, send her some love, and help us find her a cozy foster home when she’s ready. We’re rooting for you, Jellybean. Now let’s get you feeling better and home where you belong. 🐾❤️ #AngelCityPitBulls #Jellybean #MedicalRescue #RescueDogs
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10/12 - 🎾🐾 TICKLE IS READY TO BOUNCE HIS WAY INTO YOUR HEART… BUT FIRST, HE NEEDS A FOSTER HOME! 💕 Remember Tickle? Our 3-year-old professional frolicker, human-shin flopper, and enthusiastic collector of pets? This sweet boy is STILL looking for a foster home, and we’d love to find him a place where he can settle in and continue learning how to be his very best self. 🥹❤️ Tickle is an athletic, playful guy who can entertain himself for HOURS with a toy (honestly, we love an independent king 👑). He’s crate-trained and would thrive with a foster who can give him some structure, help him learn to slow down, and build his confidence as he navigates the big, wide world. ✨ Tickle’s ideal foster home: 🏡 A home with a yard where he can stretch his legs and play. 🐕 A calm, confident, well-matched dog friend who can help show him the ropes, with slow introductions. 🌳 A quiet neighborhood where he can practice his leash-walking skills at his own pace. 💪 An experienced handler who enjoys athletic dogs and can help Tickle channel all that enthusiasm into good things! Tickle has so much love and personality to share. He just needs someone willing to help him figure out that the world isn’t so overwhelming and that sometimes it’s okay to slow down and smell the roses. 🌹🐶 Could you be Tickle’s person while he waits for his adoptive family? 📧 Email foster@angelcitypits.org to learn more about fostering Tickle! Let’s get this happy little frolicker into a home where he can shine. ❤️ #AngelCityPitBulls #FosterNeeded #FosterSavesLives #FosterTickle #RescueDog
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10/10 - 🍂🌲 A LITTLE FOSTER ADVENTURE AWAITS… OVER THE GARDEN WALL! 🌲🍂 We’re looking for a temporary home for our Over the Garden Wall litter, and these little pumpkins are ready to move in! 🎃🐾 At just 4 weeks old, these tiny cuties are still little babies who like to keep things cozy in their very own puppy pen. They don’t need a big backyard or fancy puppy setup — just a safe place to crash, some meals, and a human or two to love on them. 🥹❤️ The dates we need help with are October 13–19! 📅 And here’s the best part: we provide ALL the supplies you need! 🙌 Crates, pens, food, and all the essentials are covered. You provide the home, the love, and the occasional puppy cuddle. Sounds like a pretty sweet deal, right?! 🍼💕 Can you open your home temporarily and help these little wanderers on their way? 📧 Email foster@angelcitypits.org if you can help! A week of fostering can make a world of difference for these tiny tots. Let’s get our Over the Garden Wall babies settled in somewhere cozy! 🍁🏡 #AngelCityPitBulls #PuppyFoster #FosterNeeded #TemporaryFoster #OverTheGardenWall
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10/9 - 🎭 TO BE LOVED, OR NOT TO BE LOVED? THAT SHOULD NEVER BE THE QUESTION! ❤️🐾 Meet Hamlet! This sweet 6-month-old boy spent two weeks at the South LA shelter, overlooked and unseen, and we just can’t understand how someone could pass up this petite little gentleman. At just 16 pounds, he’s basically a pocket-sized leading man! 🥹💕 Hamlet does have a little medical housekeeping to take care of. He has an umbilical hernia that will be repaired when he gets neutered, and he tested positive for demodex. Thankfully, our friends at the South LA shelter did a wonderful job treating him, and his skin is already looking so much better! ❤️ We had a foster home lined up for Hamlet, but unfortunately, plans changed at the last minute. We managed to find him an emergency foster for the night, and we’re SO grateful someone stepped up to make sure he had a safe place to land. 🙏 But Hamlet needs more than a one-night stay. He needs a foster home where he can settle in, feel safe, and enjoy being a puppy while we help him find his adoptive family. 🏡 Could your home be the next chapter in Hamlet’s story? You don’t need a castle to make this little guy feel like royalty! 👑 📧 Email foster@angelcitypits.org if you can open your home to Hamlet! Let’s make sure this sweet boy’s story has the happy ending he deserves. ❤️ #AngelCityPitBulls #FosterNeeded #FosterSavesLives #AdoptDontShop #losangeles
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10/9 - What makes us “Jump Around”? Kitten Fosters! Interested in hanging out with a stellar crew like these cuties? We always need fosters, even just a short term week helps us tremendously to save these guys from the shelter. We provide all the supplies, we just need you! Interested in learning more? Email kittens@angelcitypits.org for more info or apply to foster at the link in bio. Can’t foster? Consider donating to our chewy or amazon wishlist at the link in bio. #kittens #foster #rescue #losangeles
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10/7 - ✨ LI-LOU IS READY FOR HER CLOSE-UP! ✨ Everyone, meet LiLou — a 4-year-old, 23-pound Frenchie who is cute, silly, and SO ready for her second act. 💕🐾 LiLou arrived at the North Central shelter with some pretty unhappy skin that she’s been getting treated for, but even after spending an entire month at the shelter, this sweet girl kept getting overlooked. We honestly have no idea how! 😭 Her shelter name was Princess, but we decided this little lady deserved a name — and a life — that was a bit more original. 👑➡️✨ LiLou just felt right! Now that she’s with us, we feel like it’s finally LiLou’s turn to shine. 🌟 She’s a fun, lovable girl who deserves a cozy home where she can relax, be spoiled, and show everyone what a wonderful companion she can be. All she needs now is a foster home while we help her find the adoptive family she’s been waiting for. 🏡❤️ Can you be the person who gives LiLou her chance? 📧 Email foster@angelcitypits.org to open your home to this sweet and fun girl! #AngelCityPitBulls #FosterNeeded #FosterDog #Frenchie #losangeles
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10/2 - 💗 MEET MAI 💗 This sweet 5-year-old French Bulldog arrived at the South LA shelter with a badly damaged eye and in desperate need of medical care. We knew she needed help—and thankfully, an incredible team of people came together to make sure Mai got exactly that. 🥹 The stellar medical team at the shelter was able to perform an enucleation, removing her painful, damaged eye. And just look at her now! 🥰 Mai is once again a happy, comfortable and pain-free girl, ready to leave that difficult chapter behind. But Mai’s rescue story doesn’t end with surgery. It took a whole community to get her where she is today. ❤️ ✨ A shelter surgeon coordinated the care she desperately needed. ✨ Volunteers stepped up to get her where she needed to go. ✨ And an amazing foster opened their home and gave Mai a safe, cozy place to recover. And Mai? She is absolutely thriving. 🥹💕 We know that Mai has lived with other dogs and children, and she is currently doing amazing in her foster home. As she continues to heal and gain confidence, we can’t wait to see this sweet girl truly flourish. This is what rescue looks like. It’s shelter staff saying yes. It’s volunteers saying I can help. It’s fosters saying come on in. And it’s a community coming together for one little dog who needed someone in her corner. Welcome to the good life, Mai. 💗 We’re so happy you’re here. #Mai #AngelCityPitBulls #FrenchBulldog
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9/29 - Ask me about adopting Cami through Angel City Pitbulls! 🤍🐾 #dogsofinstagram #pittiesofinsta #fosterdogsofinstagram
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9/27 - Look who’s back at our house! 👀🐾 BEST BOY ACE! ❤️ Ace is just a big, goofy puppy who is impossible not to love. 🥹 He’s still recovering from his leg surgery, so he’s not quite ready for adoption yet—but he’s getting stronger and enjoying plenty of love and attention while he heals. 🐶💙 Something tells me this sweet boy is going to make one very lucky family incredibly happy when the time comes. 🏡❤️ Want to learn more about Ace? Reach out to adopt@angelcitypits.org for more information! Bow tie from @bow_tie_atticus #AngelCityPits #BestBoyAce #FosterDog #Fosteringsaveslives #AdoptDontShop
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9/26 - 🐾 TODAY’S THE DAY! OPEN HOUSE IS HERE! 🏡❤️ If you’ve been thinking about adding a dog to your family, today is the day to come meet your new best friend! 🥹🐶 Our Resource Center will be filled with amazing dogs who are ready for their next chapter—and they’re hoping you might be the person they’ve been waiting for. 💕 Come meet the silly ones, the cuddly ones, the goofy ones, the gentle giants, the puppies, the seniors, and all the dogs in between. There’s a whole lot of love waiting for you! 🐾 And if you’re not quite ready to adopt, you can still make a HUGE difference by becoming a foster or volunteer. Every open door helps us save another dog. ❤️ 📍 ACPB Resource Center 3612 11th Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90018 ⏰ TODAY | 1–4 PM Bring your family. Bring a friend. Bring an open heart. Just don’t be surprised if you leave with a new best friend. 🐶❤️ We’ll see you there! 👋🐾 #AngelCityPitBulls #ACPB #OpenHouse #AdoptDontShop #AdoptMe
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9/22 - 🐾 OPEN HOUSE IS THIS SATURDAY! 🐾 Come hang out with the Angel City Pit Bulls crew at our September Open House! ❤️ 📅 Saturday, September 26th ⏰ 1–4 PM 📍 ACPB Resource Center 3612 11th Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90018 Whether you’re looking to ADOPT, FOSTER, VOLUNTEER or just want to stop by and meet some of our amazing rescue dogs, we’d love to see you! 🐶💕 🏡 Looking to adopt? Come meet some of the dogs waiting for their forever families. 🛋️ Thinking about fostering? Come learn how you can change a dog’s life without making a lifelong commitment. 🙋♀️ Want to volunteer? We have lots of ways to get involved! 🐾 Just love dogs? We’re pretty sure we can help with that, too. 😉 Bring your friends, bring your family, and come spend your Saturday afternoon with us! We’ll have lots of adorable faces, plenty of tail wags, and hopefully a few “OMG, I think I need to adopt this dog” moments. 😂❤️ FOSTERS. ADOPTERS. VOLUNTEERS. EVERYONE WELCOME! Come say hi! 👋🐾 #AngelCityPitBulls #ACPBOpenHouse #OpenHouse #AdoptDontShop #FosterSavesLives FosterDogs AdoptableDogs
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9/20 - Meet Ace! 🐾❤️ @angelcitypits got a call from LAAS about this sweet 10-month-old puppy who had likely been hit by a car and needed prompt medical care and surgery on his leg. Of course, they said yes. ❤️ Ace has been hanging out at our house for the weekend, and TBH… it’s going to be really hard to let this one go. 🥹 He is such a special guy—sweet, loving, and pretty darn easy to fall in love with. Want to learn more about Ace? Email adopt@angelcitypits.org. And remember, dogs like Ace are only able to get the care and second chances they deserve because fosters step up and give them a safe place to land. Interested in fostering? Email foster@angelcitypits.org. 🐾 #AngelCityPits #FosteringSavesLives #AdoptDontShop #FosterDog
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9/20 - 🍫 Remember Nutella? This handsome face belongs to her brother, Ferrero! 🍫🐾 When we pulled Nutella from the shelter, the dog she came in with had already been adopted. This week he was returned, and we knew we had to scoop him up. ❤️ Ferrero is a brown brindle Corso with a soft, sweet temperament. He’s great with dogs large and small (yes, even the sassy little ones 😂🐶), good with kids and adults, and loves to play with his dog friends. He’s crate trained, and he’s still building confidence outside the home, so he’ll do best with someone patient who can help him find his footing. 🌱 He’s just under 75 pounds and definitely not done growing. He’s neutered, up to date on vaccines, and ready to go home. Ferrero is in a temporary foster for the weekend while we get to know him, but that ends Monday and he needs somewhere to land. 🏡💕 Could you be his foster, or even better, his adoptive family? 🥹 If you’d like to learn more about Ferrero, complete our foster application through the link in our bio or email foster@angelcitypits.org. 🍫 Big boy. Soft heart. Nutella’s other half. 💗 #AngelCityPitBulls #FosterFerrero #AdoptFerrero #CaneCorso #CorsoBoy
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9/17 - If you’re looking for a dog who is equal parts sweet angel and occasional tiny goblin, allow us to introduce you to Tasi. 😂❤️ This girl has been thriving in her foster home, and her foster says she has been an absolute joy to have around. She’s incredibly easygoing and low-maintenance, spending most of her days finding a cool spot on the floor and taking a nap. She loves being near her people without needing to be the center of attention. Basically, she’s the perfect little companion. 🥹 Tasi loves: 🐾 Long walks and sniffing ALL the things 🏖️ Early morning beach adventures 🥾 Hiking (she’s even conquered Griffith Observatory!) 🚗 Car rides where she curls up and falls asleep 🦴 Treats, Kongs & chews 😴 Napping ❤️ Being near her favorite people She has a wonderfully flexible energy level—happy to hang out and relax, but always ready when an adventure comes along. And then there’s her 10% goblin side. 👹😂 Sometimes Tasi gets the zoomies, excitedly jumps when her person comes home, playfully mouths hands or slippers, paws for attention, or gives you a little face boop. She has a very expressive personality and BIG feelings—and honestly, her foster thinks that’s part of what makes her so lovable. She has also made some great progress with her crate training and no longer barks when left alone in her crate. She walks beautifully once she settles into her stride and absolutely LOVES getting out for a good walk. Tasi is the kind of dog who wants to be your companion, not your shadow. She’ll happily follow you around the house, then curl up nearby and snooze while you go about your day. ❤️ Her foster says it best: “She’s the best companion. She wants to be in your presence, but not in a needy way.” 🥹🥹🥹 Tasi is ready to trade her foster home for an adoptive home where she can continue to thrive, explore, nap, go on walks and show off all of her silly little personality. Could Tasi be your girl? 🏡❤️ 📩 Interested in adopting Tasi? Visit the link in our bio to apply! #AngelCityPitBulls #ACPB #AdoptTasi #AdoptDontShop #AdoptableDog RescueDog
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