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For the last few weeks we’ve been reading stories in the news about Michael Vick’s release, and how he is awaiting a decision from the NFL about his future career, and waiting to see if a team will be offering him a position. Simultaneously we have been reading stories on BestFriends.org about how the dogs that they acquired after the raid on Michael Vick’s dog fighting ring are now finally beginning to be adopted into new forever homes.

We are happy to report now that Best Friends Animal Society has  received a National Award from the U.S. Justice Department for its “outstanding work with the dogs on the Bad Newz Kennels (the Michael Vick case).”

Best Friends took in half of the dogs that were seized, dogs that would have otherwise been destroyed. Instead they have spent two years in beautiful Angel Canyon in Kanab Utah to be rehabilitated under the amazing, loving care of the workers and volunteers there who dubbed them the “Vicktory Dogs.” And recently, finally some of them have been declared adoptable!

Managers at Best Friends hope that this will bring more attention to the issue of dog fighting (just as another, even larger dog fighting ring was exposed recently); as well as bring a new perspective on American pit bull terriers.

Michael Vick will now have to begin his “community service” working with the ASPCA on their anti dog fighting campaign. But can he be rehabilitated as well as the dogs that he is responsible for torturing?

Time will tell, but we certainly hope they won’t make it easy for him.

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