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The Food Bowl - For Pets and Their People

June 19th, 2008

Michael Vick Dog Gets A Second Chance

A pitbull that once belonged to Michael Vick and used for dogfighting has a new gig!
Leo is now a therapy dog at both the Camino Infusion Center where he brings comfort to to patients undergoing chemotherapy treatment, and he’s also working at Alternative Placement Academy in San Jose, where the young men seem to […]

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February 7th, 2008

Michael Vick’s Dogs Find Kindness

22 of the pit bulls seized from Michael Vick’s compound last year have been given a second chance at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah. Animals that were forced to fight in the illegal dogfighting ring are, probably for the first time, learning to trust people and live out the rest of their […]

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January 18th, 2008

Poetic Justice: Michael Vick’s House to Possibly Become An Animal Shelter

Michael Vick’s house became almost as infamous as he did last year when his dogfighting ring and subsequent animal cruelty were discovered. He sold the property in Surry County, Virginia, last May for $450,000 (thought it was appraised at $747,000) and it has since been put up for auction. The real estate developer, however, claims […]

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December 10th, 2007

Michael Vick Sentenced

Suspended Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick was sentenced to 23 months in prison this morning for his role in an illegal dog fighting ring which included the killing of pit bulls.
Vick pleaded guilty in August, admitting he bankrolled the “Bad Newz Kennels” dogfighting operation and helped kill six to eight dogs.
In a plea agreement, he […]

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September 28th, 2007

Pets in the News: September 28

~ A southern California man is charged with smuggling (with the help of his prosthetic leg!) three endangered iguanas from a nature preserve in Fiji.
~ Michael Vick charged with torturing, killing dogs in Virginia indictment. Too bad the punishment won’t fit the crime.
~ More than three months after disappearing during a tornado, Smoky the cat […]

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September 6th, 2007

Pets in the News

~ On her first day as co-host of The View, Whoopi Goldberg defends Michael Vick, former quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons, on allegations of funding illegal dogfighting and the death of 6-8 pitbulls.
~ Max, the foot-long, 22 year-old goldfish, died last week as a result of power outages in Chicago.
~ When Leona Helmsley died last […]

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