Why should you care about dog fighting- we must stop it now!

Thank you for visiting my blog, My name is Bronwen and I hope the following will change your attitude towards dog fighting and about a charity that can help prevent this, the League Against Cruel Sports. Dog fighting, although illegal, is a widely practised blood sport in the UK injuring and killing many animals every year as many people don’t give their dogs veterinary treatment in fear of being put in jail. In the next paragraphs I would like to explain to you what an issue dog fighting is to the public and how and why the LACS can help and the work they do. People need to be exposed to the problems this causes as many people aren’t aware that this is still happening and I hope I can do this through my blog.

Around 20,000 dogs are killed every year from injuries related to dog fighting and authorities suggest that it has seen a 400% increase in recent years. This can happen from cities to small suburban sites. It can be very damaging to a community as it involves many gang members and can be attractive to young people as they may gain ‘street credit’. However, there are many other issues such as the training dogs have to go through. Every day they undergo a number of strenuous activities to improve their abilities, the most popular being using an older dog, tying it up so it can’t move and letting younger dogs attack it.

The LACS, which operates throughout the UK, are a pressure group dealing with many other blood sports such as this one that was established in 1924 when RSPCA members were tired with nothing being done to stop hunting. Since then they have expanded their campaigns to things such as dog fighting. They use a variety of different direct and indirect techniques to prevent this from going on. Every year they hold a Fighting Dogs Conference in which they invite a number of people such as the RSPCA, Magistrates Association, police forces and many other people to listen to a range of people’s perspectives on the topic. The LACS also run a Fighting Dogs Crimewatch telephone service where they work with the public to prevent this. They also raise awareness through their website, http://www.league.org.uk/content/299/Dog-Fighting, films and literature to express to people how cruel these acts are and that they are illegal. The work that they do with MP’s, the Police and the public etc., is all to stop the illegal sport, dog fighting, from continuing on our streets. The consequences of this can be many dogs behaving oddly towards humans, for example attacking humans.

Thank you once again for reading my blog and it would be really helpful to me if you could answer some questions below. If you do answer these questions could you also tell me what town you come from and what country, if not the UK.

• Have you heard about the problems dog fighting causes before reading my blog and do you feel more informed & why?
• Would you now consider donating to this charity or supporting the campaign & how would you do this?
• Have I changed your attitude towards dog fighting and if so how?