Is the humane society better than adopting and rehoming? Please remove if not allowed

Meet cheesecake the stray

Hi everyone,

This is cheesecake aka slice maybe 6-8 months old . Maybe used as a bait dog. he is a stray dog I’ve had in my care since last Thursday. He was found running onto someone’s porch before a storm and she couldn’t keep him. Very malnourished and close to dying. He had a bad skin infection with mange. It was expensive to get him well. After getting his vaccinations, monthly preventatives, hookworm and tapeworms treated. I’ve been trying to rehome him and ran into the issue of “vicious breed” comments or people waiting him because he’s a pit bull which always triggers my spidey senses to leave. He’s an energetic pup, talks back a lot, I’m assuming never had a name, wore a collar but is a sweetheart. I have a Scottish terrier who plays rough with him (growls) while they play and I’m always nervous because I don’t know what this pup has been through especially with his ears being butchered and being trapped in a cage his whole life (nails are yellow) I brought him inside and he didn’t even know what being a house dog meant or felt like. He barked at the tv for hours, every time something made noise…poor baby.

I’m supposed to turn him into the shelter tomorrow but I don’t want him to get stuck there. They have sooo many pit mixes already. My goal would be to adopt and rehome but I worry about no one wanting him. The adoption counselor even recommended this option as better because he has already been with me.

do you think he has a better chance if I adopt and rehome him?

Do I let the humane society take him? I know their “screenings” wouldn’t be like how I did with a different stray I had last week, where I walked around the house he was living in and get updates daily about him.

We have a really bad stray problem in my city.

Any advice or thoughts would be wonderful