I really do agree with you on this one, I mean I really agree, its really heartbreaking to see an animal being treated so badly, and yes there are humans being treated very badly too. I heard something that really hurt me the other day, a woman telling a handicapped person, that she didn't care if she was handicapped, even if she had no legs, arms or limbs at all. I could not believe this, there really is a lot of cruelty to animals as well as human beings.
The story of the men just wanting to use the dog as something to fight and kill other animals really bothered me, I have a nephew that just raises dogs just for this reason, to fight them in order to win money. Never been to his house, but I hear that they even have dog fights at his house, he has it posted where you are not allowed in, and I was told there was just a huge open grave that he throws his dead animals into. I think he is indeed a puppy mill for these kind of dogs too. As far as tippying the law, around here it just don't work.