Michael Vick's dogs are scheduled to  meet the public (or at least the news media) 10 days from now in Utah, when Best Friends Animal Sanctuary allows the dogs to be photographed for the first time since they were seized.

I'm predicting you'll end up seeing this on network news, and everywhere else, in light of the interest among dog lovers in the dogs mistreated in a dogfighting ring operated by the former Atlanta Falcons quarterback.

Up to now, because of pending cases against some of the others accused in the ring, there has been no access to the dogs, and the agencies across the country that are caring for them, including Recycled Love in Baltimore, have been limited by the courts in what they can say about the dogs.

But in Kanab, Utah a week from Monday, the 30,000-acre animal sanctuary (pictured here in a Best Friends photo) will, for the first time, allow photographs of Vick's victims and interviews with their caretakers.

Best Friends, chosen by a court-appointed expert to care for 22 of the 47 fighting dogs seized from Vick's property in Virginia, was preparing to receive the dogs when we visited last month. On Friday, they announced the upcoming media event. 

"These dogs are learning a new way of life: playing, eating, sleeping and receiving belly rubs at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, the nation’s largest no-kill animal rescue facility," the non-profit organization said in a news media advisory.

The organization will also use the opportunity to promote the new National Geographic Channel  series "Dogtown,” which documents the individual stories of some of the dogs living at Best Friends, the nation's largest no kill animal sanctuary.