Responders said some of the dogs had severe scarring, along with festering open wounds, lacerations, and abscesses.
"It’s truly distressing to come upon dogs who are severely injured yet chained to trees or left to languish in a pen instead of getting the care they desperately need," Adam Parascandola, vice president of the animal rescue team for the society,
. "Thanks to all the agencies who intervened on behalf of these dogs, this is the last day they’re going to have to live like this."The DOJ said the Animal Welfare Act makes it a felony punishable by up to five years in federal prison to fight dogs or to possess, train, sell, buy, deliver, receive, or transport dogs intended for use in dogfighting.
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