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Dog Fighting Increasing in Iowa

Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Susan Stropes, an animal control officer in Des Moines, Iowa, said she has seen a 25 percent to 40 percent increase in the number of pit bulls that have been impounded.

KCCI Channel 8 has a video report depicting dog fights and pits bulls.
Tom Colvin, of the Animal Rescue League, said he knows dog fighting is happening. He said he has received plenty of phone calls about it, and has seen animals that have been forced into a dog-fighting ring.

Colvin said he does not think that the general public knows the extent of how much dog fighting goes on Iowa.
This news comes at a time when state and local governments are considering pit bull bans.

I continue to stop at animal shelters in my area once in a while, and they are certainly full of pit bulls. About a few weeks ago, I visited one in Moreno Valley, CA, and found a pit bull that was clearly scarred across its face, and its nose had a chunk taken out.

3 Comments:

  • I believe you'd find a direct correlation to the increase of meth-amphetamine activity as well. Dog fighting is often paired with other illegal activities, especially the manufacture or sales of illegal drugs.

    Sad on all counts.

    By Anonymous Gina, at 2:44 PM, February 23, 2005  

  • DRUG ACTIVITY COMES WITH EVERY SPORT. PERIOD, ANY PROFESIONAL SPORT!IF PEOPLE TOOK THE TIME TO UNDERSTAND AND LEARN FROM WELL EDUCATED SOURCES INSTEAD OF THE ANIMAL RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS AND THE MEDIA &PRESS WHO LIE COMPULSIVLY ,THEN POEPLE WOULD UNDERSTAND THE SPORT AND WHAT GOES INTO IT. THESE DOGS ARE NOT "TRAINED" TO FIGHT,THEY DO IT NATURALY, JUST LIKE THE GAMECOCK DOES IT NATURALY. 1000S OF YRS OF SELECTIVE BREEDING IS WHAT IT TOOK TO MAKE THESE WONDERFUL WARRIORS WE SEE SCARCELY TODAY.YOU CANT MAKE A DOG FIGHT, YOU CAN ALLOW AND REGULATE A DOG FIGHTING THOUGH,BUT YOU CANT TRAIN A MUTT TO BE A CHAMPION.YOU CAN TAKE A GAME DOG AND CONDITOIN HIM LIKE AN ATHELETE AND HELP HIM PERFORM BETTER AT WHAT HES DOING ,BUT YOU STILL CANT MAKE HIM FIGHT, INFACT IF THERE WERE MORE GAME BRED DOGS IN THE WORLD THERE WOULD BE LESS DOG ATTACTS ON PEOPLE SIMPLY BECAUSE A GAME DOG IS NOT A PEOPLE BITER. JUST THINK IF THEY WERE, WHO WOULD CONDITION AND SPEND TIME WITH A DOG THAT TRIES TO BITE YOU ALL THE TIME?
    ANYWAY ENOUGH OF MY FACTS FOR NOW,PEOPLE WILL BELEIVE WHAT EVER THEY HEAR WHEN THEY DONT KNOW ANY BETTER. ITS EASIER TO BELIVE LIES THAN THE FACTS MOST OF THE TIME.

    EXERCISE YOUR GOD GIVEN RIGHTS, AFTER ALL GOD GAVE YOU THE RIGHTS TO DO WHAT EVER YOU FEEL NECESSARY WITH YOUR ANIMALS, READ THE BIBLE STOP PROSECUTING THE INNOSENT....

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 6:56 AM, December 01, 2005  

  • To the above poster..."But blacks are inheirently inferior to whites, so it's okay to own them." "You can't make a lion kill a Christian, they do it naturally."
    Get a grip. Barbarity is barbarity, no matter what spin you want to put on it. Your "sport" is a bloody relic of a day when you could own your fellow man, beat your wife for not having dinner ready, and sell your children to factories to work. We have come beyond that point and, God willing, be able to stamp the last inhumane, barbaric vestiges of it in dog fighting and cock fighting.

    By Anonymous Jay, at 7:43 AM, January 18, 2006  

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