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HopeHoops

(47,675 posts)
2. She's a belly rub whore just like our sheltie. PET MY BELLY! PET MY BELLY! PET MY BELLY!
Tue Oct 9, 2012, 03:12 PM
Oct 2012

Cute dog, but obviously spoiled beyond all reason.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
8. My grandpa's apple head chihuahua is too
Tue Oct 9, 2012, 04:05 PM
Oct 2012

if she comes up to you and stares at you she expects you to pet her and if you give in and start scritching behind her ears she'll roll over and insist you get the belly too.

hollysmom

(5,946 posts)
4. When I volunteered at the shelter, I found the pit bulls just sweethearts
Tue Oct 9, 2012, 03:13 PM
Oct 2012

They seemed to give affection more easily. Of course, they had to destroy all the dogs in fighting or at least not adopt them out. Dog fighting is pretty big around here in the cities. Small dogs are stolen our of yards.

solara

(3,836 posts)
7. They are just dogs.
Tue Oct 9, 2012, 04:03 PM
Oct 2012

22 of Michael Vicks' fighting dogs were given to "Best Friends" for rehabilitation. A success story like no other

APRIL 25, 2012 - BY FRANCIS BATTISTA

"The notoriety of this case served as a large stage on which to demonstrate once and for all that dogs who have been press-ganged into servitude in dog-fighting rings are not damaged goods, as so many in the media and even many in mainstream animal welfare organizations have long proclaimed.

They are just dogs.

I am so proud of the work Best Friends has done in this regard. Twenty-two of the hardest-case dogs from the Bad Newz Kennels (Michael Vicks' dogs) came to Best Friends as a result of the decision by federally appointed Guardian/Special Master Rebecca Huss, a law professor at Valparaiso University School of Law.

The rehabilitation of the Vicktory Dogs, as they came to be known, proved to the world that there is a future for dogs who are victims of cruelty — even the most hardcore cases. Best Friends’ efforts with the Vicktory Dogs have bolstered the work being undertaken around the country on behalf of pit-bull-type dogs."


More here http://blogs.bestfriends.org/index.php/2012/04/25/michael-vick-scandal-five-years-later/

PD Turk

(1,289 posts)
11. Aww
Tue Oct 9, 2012, 06:09 PM
Oct 2012

What a sweet dog. Pits are sometimes a little big to be lapdogs, but just about every one I've ever known was a lapdog nonetheless

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