What is Best Friends doing to combat the horrible blood sport of dog fighting?
Of course, we need better enforcement of anti-dog-fighting laws in our country, and most existing laws need to be strengthened significantly. We’re very pleased that Best Friends’ model anti-dog-fighting legislation is currently making its way through the Georgia state senate. We’re hopeful that it will pass and serve as a model for improved anti-dog-fighting legislation in other states. But dog fighting is a cultural problem of epidemic proportions. It’s now a billion-dollar industry, and it’s firmly rooted in at-risk communities in every major city in the U.S. So we’ll need more than just legislation to effect real change. Over the past year, Best Friends has been developing model programming that works with churches and civic groups in at-risk communities on the intrinsic relationship of domestic and youth violence – and their relationship to dog fighting in these communities. We’re very excited at the initial results and are intending to expand that programming into select major ci
