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Article: Saving Michael Vick's Dogs; Pit Bulls Rescued From the Football Player's Fighting Ring Show Progress in an Unprecedented Rehabilitation Effort
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 7, 2008
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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.
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