I'm tired of people like this!!!!

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=4 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD noWrap width="100%">[font=Arial,Helvetica,Sans Serif]From: <NOBR>Weazel_Bugg</NOBR> (Original Message)[/font]</TD><TD noWrap>[font=Arial,Helvetica,Sans Serif]Sent: 10/4/2004 6:30 PM[/font]</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=10 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>[font=Arial,Helvetica,Sans Serif]<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>This Web site's the pits

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</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE cellSpacing=10 cellPadding=0 width=50 align=right border=0><TBODY></TBODY></TABLE>The Web site is called "Lawless Links," and among a certain breed of pit bull owners, it's the place to be.

The first message a visitor encounters is bizarre.

"This site does not in any way condone animal cruelty or illegal activities. As a matter of fact, anything linked here should be viewed as fiction and for entertainment purposes only."

Yeah, right. Spend an hour or so perusing some of the hundreds of kennels and chat boards linked to the site and you come away with a sick feeling in your stomach.

"There's this big secret world of pit bull fighting in this country, and a lot of it runs through this site," said a source who refused to be named because he regularly goes online to arrange fights for his pit bulls.

"Thousands of dollars are bet on some of these fights," he said. "And New York City is the center of it all for the entire country."

Some of the links are as far away as Mexico, Australia and Malaysia. The kennels have names like Smasher Pits, Shock Therapy, Smash Mouth, Nut Dog and Renegade. Videos of dog fights are advertised for sale by some guy with an Internet address in Russia.

Few of these Web sites provide addresses or phone numbers. Virtually all communication is via anonymous E-mail.

One message board is called the "Nationwide Grapevine."

"This board's purpose is to report five-o [police] problems, activities and busts in any area within the United States. Posting/cross-posting of newspaper articles and court records is appreciated. Consider this a news board. Nothing more, or less."

Organized dog fighting, after all, is illegal throughout the United States. Even being a spectator at a dog fight can land you in jail.

"We're like a secret society in the last sport that's Out There," my source said. "We've got all walks of life involved, celebrities, Wall Street brokers, ordinary people."

He rejected the suggestion that professional dog fighters mistreat their dogs.

"We train the dogs to be in top condition," he said. "Everyone's looking for that Mike Tyson or Michael Jordan of dogs. There's so much money to be made."

Most fights where big money is involved, he said, have professional referees who generally will stop a fight before a dog is killed.

But some of the Lawless Links postings paint a grislier picture. Here's a raw excerpt from a Nov. 4 play-by-play account of a fight between two pit bulls, named Hooker and Georgia Girl.

"Hooker bit haaaard as hell; at 4:38, Georgia Girl let go, and went 2 a diff corner, at 4:40 Georgia Girl took steps, shook off her head ... and ran it [won] and took hold. She never went 4 number 2 [a second fight], cuz she passed on [died] 3 days later, a day b4 Mayday passed. Her sis Crisis died in the box, cuz she met a terrible head dog, and Crisis had the mouth of a shark, ask STP. Still 1 left of the 3 sisters."

Ed Boks, director of the nonproft Center for Animal Care and Control said yesterday he believes most of what's happening in New York is just "small backyard fighting." But then again, Boks said he had never heard of Lawless Links. Others say underground pit bull fighting has gotten so big in New York and elsewhere that the high rollers now hold conventions in Las Vegas. "Every three months or so we go to Vegas, rent some hotel rooms, put up the music, and pit the champion dogs from different cities against each other," said my source.

Originally published on December 4, 200


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Are you tired of people "fighting dogs" or people not understanding the game culture?

 

People not understanding the culture and the background of these dogs. They try so hard to change or break something they never will be able to.