Dog fighting scumbags

Dear kenny,

I desperately need your help to save countless dogs from a life of suffering. I need your help to save animals like Cupcake, who was used as bait in the depraved world of dog fighting.

She is thought to have been tethered to a post and forced to fight against bigger, more powerful dogs. Her face was covered in scars, and her teeth had been broken and ground down to stubs to make it harder for her to defend herself.

She was submissive, traumatised…terrified.

A dog fight takes place every single day. Fights range from impromptu one-on-one street 'rolls', to professional, organised fights with high-stakes gambling involved.

Animals undergo brutal ‘training’ to become fighters, such as:

being forced to run on a treadmills for several hours a day;
'head slamming' – where the dog’s head is violently and repeatedly slammed into a wall to toughen the skull;
using bait animals, like Cupcake. Typically rabbits, cats and small dogs are used, and most will be torn to shreds.
When pitted against other dogs in fights, they inevitably suffer horrific injuries. Those who survive the fight will often die later as a result of their injuries. Those who lose will often be killed as punishment for bringing shame to their handler or for losing them money, such as by being beaten to death.

We urgently need your support to expose this barbaric cruelty and bring the perpetrators to justice. Please make a donation today.

Over the last few months, the League has been using police models for dealing with terrorism to pilot a strategy to end dog fighting once and for all. As the lead investigator, I worked at the heart of local communities, collecting evidence and educating people about the signs of dog fighting, and how to report information through our confidential Animal Crimewatch service. By May, our intelligence and analysis experts had processed 40 intelligence reports from local people.


Now we are ready to go national - and we need your help.

Please make an urgent donation and you could help put investigators and other experts on the ground across the country to set up education and prevention programmes, and collect more vital evidence.

We also need your help to establish tougher sentences for convicted dog fighters. Britain’s dog fighting laws are some of the most lenient in Europe, with offenders receiving a maximum prison sentence of six months.

Your donation could help significantly increase the sentence – making it a much more effective deterrent.

A dog fight is taking place today .

It could be in a barn in the middle of nowhere. It could be in an abandoned urban warehouse. It could be happening in your neighbourhood, right this second.

For the dogs who have already fought and lost their lives, and for the dogs who will be forced to fight tomorrow - please give today.