Help wanted —– and needed!!!
Tim Racer, one of the founders of Bad Rap, playing with one of the adoptable dogs named Jet!!!
In what has been called, a crisis response of the same magnitude of Hurricane Katrina, the Humane Society of Missouri is calling out to any and all shelters and rescue organizations for help placing many dogs that were rescued from raids on dogfighting rings earlier this month.
All together that are over 500 pit bulls from the states of Missouri, Illinois, Texas, Iowa, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Mississippi that are currently being evaluated to determine their ability to be adopted or worst case scenario, have to be euthanized. The calls to take some of these dogs for possible adoption have been few and far between. The raid on the dog fighting operations that found these dogs was a result of a telephone tip, but no one realized the magnitude of what the raids would ultimatley produce. According to Debbie Hill, the Humane Society of Missouri’s vice president, “We’re going to need a whole lot of new friends to help the animals in this case. There are so many more in this unprecedented raid.”
Shortly after the raid, when desperate phone calls and emails took place across the country, about 10 pit bulls were sent to California, courtesy of Bay Area Doglovers Responsible About Pit Bulls, or Bad Rap, which helped evaluate the dogs taken from NFL star Michael Vick’s dogfighting operation.
Of the ten, about half of the dogs will be adoptable with training and socialization, as they appeared starved for human love and will thrive in a family environment. One is still being evaluated and unfortunately due to the aggresiveness and lack of socialization, about four will have to be euthanized.
All 500 dogs will be evaluated and unfortunately many may end up having their lives cut short, not by the hands of these caring individuals who came out to help, but by the barbarians who continue to subject these wonderful animals to the horrible conditions in which they are forced to exist.
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