Last night on the news they showed clip of chained, scarred dogs. A fenced yard Pierce County.
The Seattle times Reports:
GRAHAM, Wash. -- Pierce County authorities have seized 22 pit bulls, many with scars or wounds, from a residence near Graham.
Sheriff's department spokesman Ed Troyer says deputies were called to the home on Saturday after a report a man was outside the house, waving a gun and making threats. Troyer says they arrested the man and obtained search warrants, and found the dogs, along with signs of a marijuana-growing operation.
Troyer says deputies arrested a 36-year-old man for investigation of first-degree domestic violence assault and unlawful manufacture of marijuana. The dogs were taken to the Humane Society of Tacoma-Pierce County.
That up there was all the property of the Seattle Times
But then on a further note Q13 reported that they could not get any of the neighbors to comment out of fear of retaliation. Sighting that often times there were people on the property with riffles.
Of coarse there were people with riffles, the marijuana was worth protecting. The dogs obviously shown signs of fighting. Scarred faces, legs, and poorly healed broken bones. They showed pictures of a rather nice tread mill, with an attached leash, and sideboards to prevent an unwanted dismount.
The dogs all looked rather mature. Of a decent age. How long could this have been going on? At what point do you need a kennel license? With all of the new found puppy mill cases, the laws have changed.
But now to the real point of all of this. A dog, with no conscience, is taught to do but one thing. Bite. It has to suffer the consequences. These dogs have been said to all be aggressive, and non re-home-able. So they will die. No choice!
The police took all of the dogs to the humane society. The thing that really gets me though is; In order for these dogs to be "dog fighting" is there not a place they do it? Is there not another breeder somewhere else that meets with this guy to fight the dogs? Were the dogs going to die this week or next? Why did the police not investigate this to stop the bigger, more pressing issue? Or maybe even catch the entire ring. Somewhere out there is another guy just like this one, and chances are that they fight the dogs together.
Any chance that catching this one guy is just another way to keep the big problem out there as job security for the Pierce County Sheriffs Department. I am pretty sure things like this will come up for the budget votes.
I don't think that killing those dogs will solve any problems. Dog fighting is bad, but it doesnt dictate that a dog is going to remain aggressive. Look at the Micheal Vick case, those dogs were worked with and re-trained and put up for adoption. I think sometimes we take the easy way out because it is more cost efficient.
ReplyDeleteWhen I first wrote this, this was the comment on the news. As proven here, that will make me wrong from time to time. I have heard through the grapevine, that paws is working to save some of these, but I do not know how good the source is right now.
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