By Elaine Furst For Dog Files Just days before he was to make his appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Michael Vick abruptly decided to cancel. It now appears that there may have been multiple reasons behind Vick’s last minute decision. A major concern for Vick may have been that Winfrey’s producers were reaching out [...]

By Elaine Furst For Dog Files This is one road trip that would give Cheech and Chong nightmares! On February 9, Joel Dobrin and his Pit Bull were driving in his 1998 GMW Truck in Sherman County, Oregon when Dobrin spotted Police Sgt. John Terrel’s cruiser lights flashing in his rearview mirror. In a panic, [...]

  By Elaine Furst For Dog Files Across the street from the Ferguson Grove Baptist Church sits the empty property where Michael Vick ran his infamous dog fighting ring. An organization called Dogs Deserve Better is raising money to buy the property to turn it into a dog rehab center. If Wallace Johnson, Jr. has [...]

By Elaine Furst For The Dog Files The only existence she has ever known is complete and utter misery. And the condition that animal rescuers found her in has left them shaken to the core. Alice, as the dog in the box has come to be known, has spent all her days–a full six years [...]

By Elaine Furst For Dog Files Mercedes, the final dog sitting on Broward County’s canine “death row“, was released to her owners Friday after the pit bull’s two year wait for freedom finally ended. Mercedes’ trouble started in 2008 when she got loose in her Fort Lauderdale Victoria Park neighborhood and killed Stan Peter’s 10-year [...]

By Elaine Furst For Dog Files In another sad blow to the breed, pit bulls are landing in record droves in animal shelters in Maricopa County, Arizona. Over 14,000 pit bulls went through Maricopa Shelters last year. About one third of the animal shelter population in the county is made up of pit bulls. Sadly [...]

By RUDOLPH BUSH For DallasNews.com Richard Hunter, the man who took the now famous video of Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway handing a key to Dallas to Eagles QB Michael Vick, addressed the Dallas City Council. In a brief statement, Hunter addressed Caraway, who is absent today. He also asked Mayor Tom Leppert to take [...]

Friend of the Dog Files, Jen McNamara gave a great talk at the Ignite South Dakota conference about Pit Bull stereotyping and the difference between a companion dog and a resident dog. Check it out below and also check out Jen and her family in Dog Files Episode 12: Pit Proud: The History Of The [...]