That is exactly what happen, @corzhens ! It is already sad and terrible that the pitbulls themselves are starved and made to be vicious and want to kill and then have to fight for their lives.
But even worse, at least to me, is that someone's beloved house pet, just like yours and mine, is put out to be killed by the pitbulls so that they can learn to be killers when they fight.
It is not only dogs that are being stolen; but also cats, and probably other small animals, like rabbits.
Since the pitbulls are starved, killing and eating a rabbit, or even a cat would certainly train them to shred another animal up brutally.
I read the lost and found posts on the pet group online every day, and many more people are losing their pets than are ever found again. Of course, some of these would be animals that were found and kept by other people, or somehow died and were never found; but a good number of them are used for the dogfights and training.
One way that they can tell this, is that they have also found the "dumping sites" where the mutilated, dying, or dead dogs are dumped after the dogfighters are done with them.
These pictures are too awful to even look at !!
I think that most of the story about the dogfighting is never known by the general public, and all we usually hear is that people are making money fighting their dogs.
This is why it is SO important to make sure that our own pets are safe when we are not at home.
Even though we have a good fenced yard, I always put the dogs in the house if we are gone , even for just a short time. Too many dogs have been taken out of totally fenced yards, so even that is not safe anymore.
