Animal cruelty is a big issue in today’s society. Many people mistreat, undercare, and abandon animals for many different reasons. Most people are uneducated when it comes to having animals. It takes a lot of dedication, love, care, and responsibility to be an animal owner. Animal fighting, bestiality, physical harm, and targeting the pet for physical harm is illegal in all 50 states. Farming rodeos, hunting and trapping, pest control, research, and practice of euthanization and activities that some states exempt from the laws. Idaho, North Dakota, and South Dakota are the only three states that have not passed felony animal cruelty laws so they cannot handle the cases as effectively as the other forty-seven states. The laws for animal neglect
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It is illegal in every state. The events range from big and small and usually are not in the same place every time. A big name that is tied to dog fighting is Michael Vick. He was the quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons when everything went down.
“Bad Newz Kennels” was the name Vick ran everything under. The kennels housed and trained over fifty pit bull dogs. They staged dogfights, killed dogs, and had high stakes gambling at the events held at Vick’s property. The stakes were raised as high as twenty-six thousand dollars. The nation was notified how dangerous and vicious dog fighting is when Bad Newz Kennels was exposed. The operation lead by Vick was six years long. It happen from the time of two thousand one through two thousand seven.
Michael Vick was twenty-one and was beginning his rookie year in the NFL when he started the “Bad Newz Kennels”. Vick did not act alone in the operation. Purnell Peace, Quanis Phillips, and Tony Taylor were Vick’s associates. Vick did purchase the property for the operation and it was in Surry County, Virginia. Vick was also the one who was registered to be a breeder so it was legal to have large numbers of dogs on the property. The other three associates set up the property to make it a dog fighting venue. They did it by building a fence around the sides of the property so actions and activities were not
It is illegal in every state. The events range from big and small and usually are not in the same place every time. A big name that is tied to dog fighting is Michael Vick. He was the quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons when everything went down.
“Bad Newz Kennels” was the name Vick ran everything under. The kennels housed and trained over fifty pit bull dogs. They staged dogfights, killed dogs, and had high stakes gambling at the events held at Vick’s property. The stakes were raised as high as twenty-six thousand dollars. The nation was notified how dangerous and vicious dog fighting is when Bad Newz Kennels was exposed. The operation lead by Vick was six years long. It happen from the time of two thousand one through two thousand seven.
Michael Vick was twenty-one and was beginning his rookie year in the NFL when he started the “Bad Newz Kennels”. Vick did not act alone in the operation. Purnell Peace, Quanis Phillips, and Tony Taylor were Vick’s associates. Vick did purchase the property for the operation and it was in Surry County, Virginia. Vick was also the one who was registered to be a breeder so it was legal to have large numbers of dogs on the property. The other three associates set up the property to make it a dog fighting venue. They did it by building a fence around the sides of the property so actions and activities were not