Best Friends at it again...offers "help" to WSK dogs

Best Friends at it again...offers "help" to WSK dogs

http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2009/jan/22/animal-group-offers-to-help-with-pit-bulls/



Animal group offers to help with pit bulls

Dogs were seized from kennel in Wilkes

WILKESBORO - Best Friends Animal Society, one of the country's largest animal sanctuaries, is offering to pay an expert to assess more than 127 pit bulls owned by Wilkes County, to spay or neuter those dogs deemed adoptable, and to network with rescue groups to place the dogs in homes.
The dogs were seized from the owner of Wildside Kennels, Ed Faron, 61, during a raid Dec. 10 at his house off Mertie Road in Wilkes County. The county now owns the dogs after Faron failed to meet a court-ordered deadline last Thursday to pay the county $52,925 for the dogs' care. He has a March 4 court date on a felony charge of dogfighting.

County officials have said that if Faron is convicted of dogfighting, the dogs will be euthanized. Animal-advocacy groups differ about whether pit bulls bred or trained for fighting can be successfully adopted as pets.
About half of the dogs seized were puppies. Two or three litters have been born since the raid, according to county officials, who did not know an exact number.

Ledy VanKavage, an attorney for Best Friends in Utah, said that it is not fair to condemn all of the dogs, especially the puppies. "Genetics is not everything," she said. "Dogs are individuals just like people are, and their temperament should be evaluated as individuals."

Best Friends is home to about 2,000 animals, and is the setting for the National Geographic Channel television program Dogtown.

Dawn McCartney, who operates Second Chance Pit Bull Rescue in Rougemont, near Durham, said she could take in some of the dogs. She requires adoption contracts, checks references and does not adopt dogs to people who plan to keep them primarily in the yard rather than inside the home.

McCartney has had pit bulls for 25 years and disagrees with the idea that dogs bred for fighting are so inherently aggressive that their offspring are not adoptable.

A spokesman for Best Friends said that the agency has left a message about the offer with county officials but has not been able yet to speak with them. Attempts to reach county officials yesterday were unsuccessful.

■ Monte Mitchell can be reached in Wilkesboro at 336-667-5691 or at mmitchell@wsjournal.com.
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Re: Best Friends at it again...offers "help" to WSK dogs

It's beyound belief that any law maker see's this process as being fair. He could be found not guilty but has lost his property(dogs) to his accusers. Now these media clowns want to get their hands on the dogs to boost their rating on tv. F**K EM ALL!

 

Re: Best Friends at it again...offers "help" to WSK dogs

READ WITH OPEN MIND
Man That Is All Jacked Up:mad:Theres A Way To Stop This Type Of Stuff:confused:But Its Gonna Take A Lot Of Team Work Ive Been Readn Post About How Everybody Is Aginst BSL, And How Donations Are Being Collected To Help Those Kennels That have Been Raided And How Most Breeders Are Going Privet With Ther Breeding Again:mad:But It Is Possible To Make this Sport Legal As It Ounce Was:confused: The Way Is Through The Goverment A Petiton To Make It A Recognized Legal Activty With Guidlines Taxes And Registered Organizations With Licenses To perticipate That Will Ahere To Rules And Regulations Such As Humainly Uthanization, And Vet Visits, Also Allowing Licensed Vets To Attend And Administer On Spot Care Or Humainly Uthanize Which Ever Need Be. Now Somebody May Not Agree With What I Have Posted:eek: But Their Main Reason For BSL Stems From Tha Sport It Self. But If They Continue On In The Manor That They Are Going It Dosnt Matter The Color (Black,Blue,Red,Brindle,Ect.) Or The Bloodline (Eli,Gaff,Jeep,Razor) We Will Not BE Able TO Own This Fine Animal. BUT ITS GONNA TAKE TEAM WORK AND SOON.

 

Re: Best Friends at it again...offers "help" to WSK dogs

Any good lawyer could have filed a extension to postpone any payments till after trial.
They seized the dogs as part of the investigation leading to the charge.They can't make you pay for something you may not be guilty of.That's like the state making you pay for 18 years of child support without even giving you a DNA test.

A big problem with defense lawyers is that they get personal beliefs involved when they should not be.Those high dollar lawyers out in Hollywood,people that defend people like those movie/music producers and high profile murder cases IE: Johnny Cochran do there job and move on.They don't care what you may or may not have done they just want to win so they get paid.

 

Re: Best Friends at it again...offers "help" to WSK dogs

wtf! that's just plain stupid that they won't give him his property back and he hasn't even been found guilty. this is just all bs. it's supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. those dumba** punks wouldn't like it if someone came into their house and took their big screen tv b/c they were accused of something stupid then they didn't get it back b/c they couldn't pay some ridiculously high fine and they weren't even charged yet. as a matter of fact that's a good idea let's lobby to make being a dumba** illegal. then they'd all be locked up. poor ed they really screwed him. i hope he sues them for everything they are worth. that's gonna be the solution to this: sue sue and sue some more. when they start losing lawsuits they won't have any funding to pull this crap.

 

Re: Best Friends at it again...offers "help" to WSK dogs

I would rather those dogs were pts then to end up in the charge of this group.

 

Re: Best Friends at it again...offers "help" to WSK dogs

With the way counties are crackin' down, there would be no fair trials unless, he or she is worth millions of bucks. Then, payoffs would be great.