Vick: A new dog could help my rehabilitation

[MJZiggy]

I don't think he was. It was written that they killed the dogs that did poorly or did not show the willingness to fight in training. These dogs had no value in his operation. They were like the male chicks on an egg farm.

Dogs that aren't aggressive can be sold to men who want "badass" dogs and those who perform poorly can be sold for breeding stock. These are still purebred animals worth several hundred dollars apiece. A male chick on an egg farm, not so much.

[th87]

Dogs that aren't aggressive can be sold to men who want "badass" dogs and those who perform poorly can be sold for breeding stock. These are still purebred animals worth several hundred dollars apiece. A male chick on an egg farm, not so much.

They probably weren't interested in the money per se. Just a successful dog fighting operation. With the fiercest dogs, etc.

[pbmax]

Dogs that aren't aggressive can be sold to men who want "badass" dogs and those who perform poorly can be sold for breeding stock. These are still purebred animals worth several hundred dollars apiece. A male chick on an egg farm, not so much.

Given that the operation was covert and that the vast majority of people aware of it were dog fighting, I doubt Vick had much of a chance to market his unwanted dogs.

[Patler]

Dogs that aren't aggressive can be sold to men who want "badass" dogs and those who perform poorly can be sold for breeding stock. These are still purebred animals worth several hundred dollars apiece. A male chick on an egg farm, not so much.

It's in the dog fighters best interest to get poorly performing dogs out of the gene pool. Besides, they aren't going to sell it to a legitimate breeder and risk being found out, and they certainly don't want to breed it themselves.

They aren't going to sell a "wimp" as a "badass" dog and ruin their reputation.

[th87]

And it's unlikely that money played a factor, given Vick's wealth at the time. I think his interest was in breeding the best fighters.

[pbmax]

Again, without me using the child molester argument, many people would never get past their preconceived notions. I needed the bomb to make some on this site understand there was a reason/precedent/logic behind him not owning a dog.

No one needed to be reminded of child molesters to recognize the logic of a dog fighter not being allowed to own a dog.

[pbmax]

Does anyone know whether he owned any pets outside of the dog fighting operation?

[MJZiggy]

Does anyone know whether he owned any pets outside of the dog fighting operation?

I looked and found nothing saying he did or didn't.

[Brandon494]

Some of you are letting your emotions get in the way of common sense. After everything that he has been through do you really think if a judge allowed him to own a dog that he would harm it in anyway? He wants a dog for his daughters, not another pit bull to train how to kill. I say let the man have a dog for his family and just have someone check up on the dog every once and awhile to make sure its being taken care of.