Sentences with phrase «victims of dogfighting»

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Dogs are often the victims of cars, dogfights, gunshots and poisoning.

While the HSUS may have helped with laws, they still (originally) believed that all dogfighting victims should be euthanized because there was absolutely no chance of rehabilitation.

WASHINGTON, D.C. ---- The 2007 conviction of football star Michael Vick for dogfighting helped hundreds of animal welfare executives and their minions to get filthy rich, yet the animal advocacy groups pocketing the money did little, if anything, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the April 20, 2007 drug bust and April 25, 2007 police raid that sent Vick to prison, sent pit bull advocates laughing all the way to the bank, and ---- indirectly ---- sent tens of thousands of human and animal dog attack victims to hospitals, veterinarians, and often their graves.

The crime and cruelty of dogfighting was compounded by the cruel injustice of killing the victims.

The victim advocacy movement may yet regrow a bona fide humane movement rooted in representing «the voice of the voiceless,» as poet Etta Wheeler Wilcox put it in 1910, at a time when humane societies were the standard bearers for abused and exploited children as well as animals, and stood in opposition to slavers and the Ku Klux Klan, not in defense of the dogs the slavers and the KKK bred and used to intimidate racial and ethnic minorities, between staging fundraising dogfights.

That forever changed everyone's view of how a dogfighting victim could be rehabilitated,» says Zach.

ASPCA Forensic Behavior Team Our specialized team of animal behaviorists can assist animal welfare organizations in preparing for or responding to the animal victims of cruelty such as hoarding, puppy mills, and dogfighting.

Evaluating victims of cruelty cases — including animals seized in dogfighting, hoarding, and puppy mill raids — and making recommendations for behavioral rehabilitation and possible adoption.