When the feds and local law-enforcement agencies busted a big dog-fighting ring a while back, there was much talk of the more than 100 dogs that had been "rescued."
If by "rescued" you meant "Sent to Doggie Death Row," then they were indeed rescued.
A commenter to our item on the arrests said the dogs were being euthanised with "no temperament tests, no allowing rescues to assess them, nothing."
Is that true, Houston SPCA?
Photo by Paul KnightThe announcement of the big bust.That much-ballyhooed dogfight bust last year has yielded some jail time: A 35-year-old Houston man has pled guilty and will receive a 15-month state-jail sentence for both causing and attending a dogfight, the DAs office has announced."Belinda Smith, an Assistant District Attorney in the Animal Cruelty Section, said evidence showed the fight involving Bates' dog went on for more than an hour and caused injuries to both dogs in that fight," the
