Austin Escorts: Graduation Day for the Pit Bull Training Team
January 25, 2010
Graduation Day for the Pit Bull Training Team
Top honors go to Terrence and Elmo
The Humane Society of the United States
by Nadya Vera and Ariana Huemer
Chicago’s Austin neighborhood is notorious for its violence. Gang wars, drugs, murder, and prostitution are common occurrences.
Stray dogs, many of them castoffs from dogfighting, roam the streets and alleys, weaving between the abandoned houses with plywood-covered windows.
Stopped in the nick of time
Twelve-year-old Terrence Murphy and his pit bull Elmo are refreshing exceptions in this grim neighborhood.
Terrence was on his way to becoming another dogfighting statistic when End Dogfighting in Chicago Anti-Dogfighting Advocate Sean Moore spotted him in an alley, about to engage in a dogfight. Moore, a reformed dogfighter from Austin, convinced Terrence to join the program’s Pit Bull Training Team (PBTT).
See the full article from “HSUS News”