Sentences with phrase «dogfighting operations»

Tom Colvin, Chief Executive Officer of the Animal Rescue League of Iowa, has led his organization through dogfighting cases and said, «With the passage of the HEART Act, the costs involved in taking down large - scale dogfighting operations would be significantly reduced.

Police busted 246 dogfighting operations alone during those three years, an average of more dogfighting busts per year than have ever been accomplished in any other single year, impounding the three highest numbers of dogs and arresting three of the four highest annual totals of dogfighting suspects.

Law enforcement agencies across the country call upon us to assist with the invesigation and prosecution of every type of animal abuse — from individual situations of neglect and abuse, to cockfighting or dogfighting operations, to abusive, illegal puppy mill operations and to large - scale animal cruelty situations such as animal hoarding.

Animals seized from dogfighting operations and other cruelty investigations deserve a right to be independently reviewed, instead of being automatically euthanized, a coalition of animal welfare groups has agreed.

Our emergency rescue team collaborates with local law enforcement agencies on large - scale animal cruelty investigations, involving everything from hoarding cases to puppy mills and dogfighting operations.

But to me, all the evidence points to the much more sinister notion that Kirk Cousins is running a underground dogfighting operation.

Of the 51 dogs rescued from Michael Vick's property when the dogfighting operation was found there, 22 brave survivors needed Best Friends the most.

A Pennsylvania - based dog rescue organization and advocacy group has reportedly signed a contract to buy the former estate of Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick — headquarters of Bad Newz Kennels, a dogfighting operation.

Vick is serving a 23 - month federal sentence after admitting that he bankrolled the dogfighting operation and helped kill six to eight dogs.

Oscar Allen, who sold a champion pit bull to Vick's dogfighting operation, was sentenced Friday on a federal dogfighting charge.

Inside Vick's dogfighting operation Authorities descending last year on 1915 Moonlight Road in Smithfield, Va., found where Vick, the former NFL quarterback, and others staged pit bull fights in covered sheds, tested the animals» fighting prowess and destroyed and disposed of dogs that weren't good fighters.

A pit bull who was seized from a notorious dogfighting operation in Virginia, rehabilitated in Utah, and adopted by a couple in Texas helped make the case for a new law in Nevada that prohibits local governments from enacting and enforcing regulations that deem a dog dangerous based solely on its breed.

Best Friends received and rehabilitated most of the dogs seized from the dogfighting operation at Michael Vick's former estate in Virginia, including Mel, who was believed to have been used as a bait dog.

In all, 31 pit bulls and mixed breed dogs were recovered from a dogfighting operation in Ontario last month, where police charged three people with 276 offenses.

Not exact matches

Michael Vick after entering a guilty plea After he was named in a very - detailed, 84 - count Federal indictment for hosting dogfights in his home, for funding the entire operation, and for executing losing pit bulls by means of lynching, drowning, electrocution and body slams, MichaeI Vick retained a Dream Team of five, very high - priced attorneys, masterminded by Billy Martin, the same hired gun who recently represented former Dick Cheney hatchet man Scooter Libby.

We raid dogfighting places, hording operations, and puppy mills.

Despite the disruption of two major operations in the area since 2009, dogfighting remains prevalent, Rickey said.

These missions are nice break from the hectic action of the dogfights and allow the player to act on the intel side of the operations, while occasionally taking out a few targets with drone missiles when the order is given.

Potentially the star of the show, though, is the new War Mode mission called Operation Husky, which will introduce aerial dogfighting into the fray.

And while it's great news that these rings have been brought down, the interstate scale of the operations is disconcerting — it means a multitude of dogfighting rings are most likely still in operation around the nation.