367 Pit Bulls Rescued From Massive Dog Fighting Organization
Federal and state investigators have made 12 arrests and rescued 367 pit bull terriers in a multi-state raid to shut down a dog fighting ring in what is believed to be the second-largest raid against organized dog fighting in the United States.
160 Dogs Rescued In North Carolina Puppy Mill Raid
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA – Graphic images of the 160 dogs collected in a raid last week in Stokes County show the dogs sleeping in their own waste, in makeshift kennels that had exposed wires and an infestation of mice. But Kim Alboum, director of the Humane Society of North Carolina, which took the pictures, hopes […]
Philadelphia SPCA Breaks Up 4 Dog Fighting Rings
For the Philadelphia SPCA, it was an unusually busy weekend with 4 dog fighting raids, and in the process, several dogs’ lives were saved In the first case, animal cruelty investigators say they had a building in Grays Ferry, Philadelphia under surveillance for months. On late Sunday night, word got out that a dog fight […]
Rescued Fighting Dogs Await Adoption
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Slain FBI Dog To Be Honored
More sad news today. Again, our hearts and thoughts go out to Freddy (pictured at right) and his FBI family. On behalf of The Dog Files and all its friends, thanks so much for all you do. — Kenn Detroit — An FBI dog killed in the line of duty Wednesday will have his name […]
FBI K9 Dies In Raid On Suspected Radical Islamic Group In Dearborn, Michigan
Not much info on this. What I can find leads me to believe that the FBI Canine was shot by friendly fire. Not completely sure yet. I did find this report on the Detroit Free Press site: Everyone wanted to know about the dog carried from a mysterious chopper in Madison Heights on Wednesday afternoon. […]
Anatomy Of A Dog Raid
Embedded video from CNN Video By Brooke Baldwin and Susan Brown for CNN LAURENS COUNTY, Georgia (CNN) — It was 8 a.m. October 15. Our CNN crew had been up for a while, waiting. We still didn’t have an address. My producer, Susan Brown, and I had several questions: What would the living conditions of […]
Polish Police Raid Dog Fight, 18 Men Detained
Reuters WARSAW (Reuters) – A large police squad raided a dog-fight venue in western Poland Saturday and detained 18 men in what is believed to be the country’s first such incident, police said. “Our 50-strong task force comprising criminal, riot and anti-terrorist police entered a barn in the village of Kapiel near Gniezno while a […]
Hundreds Of Pit Bulls Rescued In US Dog Fighting Raid
CHICAGO (AFP) — More than 350 dogs — most of them pit bulls — were rescued Wednesday in what officials said was the largest dog fighting crackdown in US history. Authorities in six states seized the dogs in coordinated raids which netted the arrests of 26 people accused of forcing the dogs to fight to […]