Dog Fights by Valentina Febles

Do you know how many dogs are misstreated? How many are used to earn money? How many are in the street? Or maybe, how many have already died? It is true and it happens, this is called Dog Fights. Dog fighting is a type of blood sport, generally defined as pitting two game dogs against one another in a ring or a pit for the entertainment of the spectators or the gratification of the dogfighters, who are sometimes referred to as dogmen. Dog fights usually last until one dog is declared a winner, which occurs when one dog fails to scratch, one dog dies, or one dog jumps out of the pit. The loser, if not killed in the fight, is typically killed by the owner through a gun, beatings, or torture. However, sometimes dog fights end without declaring a winner. For instance, the dog's owner may call the fight. Dog fighting generates revenue from stud fees, admission fees and gambling. Animal advocates consider dog fighting to be one of the most serious forms of animal abuse, not only for the violence that the dogs endure during and after the fights, but because of the suffering they often endure in training. According to a filing in U.S. District Court in Richmond by federal investigators in Virginia, which was obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and published by the Baltimore Sun on July 6, 2007, a losing dog or one whose potential is considered unacceptable faces "being put to death by drowning, strangulation, hanging, gun shot, electrocution or some other method". Some of the training of fighting dogs may entail the use of small animals (including kittens) as prey for the dogs. Statistics organization called Canine Miracles show that 100% of the dogs have been tortured or abused. The total of the perpetrators are men and 80% of the "worst torturers" belongs to high socialoeconomic class, and who usually try to help these injured animals are predominantly poor people Dogmen keep them in chain in a dirty backyard, starving and beaten, trained to fight and keep on fighting. Even if their legs are broken, even if their guts are hanging out. If they win, they live to fight another day; If they lose, they die To the men they’re are just dogs, but who is the real animal?