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"The animals suffer broken bones, severed legs and chewed-off ears.\"It\u2019s his dogs ... if that\u2019s what he wants to do, do it,\" says Washington Redskins running back Clinton Portis in his defense of Atlanta Falcons\u2019 quarterback Michael Vick, who is under investigation for allegedly running an illegal dogfighting ring.Their faces are crushed by powerful jaws, their eyes gouged by sharp teeth and their throats viciously and savagely torn out even as they lie prone, dehydrated, exhausted and bleeding to death.Man\u2019s best friend, forced into these death-fights for the amusement of the blood-thirsty sub-humans outside the pit who own, train and bet on which will suffer the more agonizing death.\"It\u2019s his dogs ... if that\u2019s what he wants to do, do it.\"The investigators have not yet been able to secure enough proof of Vick\u2019s involvement in the barbarism to charge him, but we do know that 66 dogs, almost all of them pit bulls, were found last month at a Virginia home owned by Vick, along with a dogfighting pit, blood soaked carpeting and equipment commonly associated with dogfighting. We also know that Portis, not even a teammate of Vick\u2019s, seems to have no problem putting his own blood-lust on display in defending the Falcons\u2019 QB, and that his attitude may be indicative of a much larger problem brewing below the NFL\u2019s seemingly squeaky-clean surface.An ESPN report that aired Sunday on \"Outside the Lines\" featured an undercover informant who has been involved in the dogfighting subculture for 20 years."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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