i know if one trains a dog to fight or kill, it will do so, or if it cannot, it will usually be killed by those doing the training. these are NOT human beings to me. they're scum.
this is unprecedented. i know for a fact when fighting pits are 'rescued' 9 out of 10 times they are euthanized because they are deemed to dangerous to rehabilitate. well NOT in this case and it appears to have worked. heck one of these dogs wears a clown collar and is a therapy dog in a cancer ward!
man, i LOVE dogs and i sure am glad most of these dogs got a second chance. we all know other dogs won't.
oh and a shout out to U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson. he didn't have to do what he did. but he did it and saved a LOT of dogs.
Saving Michael Vick's Dogs
Pit Bulls Rescued From the Football Player's Fighting Ring Show Progress in an Unprecedented Rehabilitation Effort
Washington Post Staff Writer
When football superstar Michael Vick pleaded guilty last year to conspiring to run a dogfighting operation, we knew he had kept about 50 pit bulls on his 15-acre property in rural Surry County, Va., on a road named Moonlight. We knew the dogs were chained to car axles near wooden hovels for shelter. And we knew the dogs that didn't fight were beaten, shot, hanged, electrocuted or drowned. But we didn't know their names. Headlines described the nameless dogs as "menacing." Some animal rights groups called for the "ticking time bombs" to be euthanized as soon as Vick's case was closed and they were no longer valuable as evidence. That's what typically happens after a dogfighting bust. nstead, the court gave Vick's dogs a second chance. U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson ordered each dog to be evaluated individually, not judged by the stereotype of the breed. And he ordered Vick to pony up close to $1 million to pay for the lifelong care of those that could be saved.........
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