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January 29, 2008

Vick dogs video: Readjusting in Utah

This video of Michael Vick's dogs, "B-Roll" filmed by the National Geographic Channel, provides a behind the scenes look at how the dogs seized from the former NFL quarterback's dogfighting ring are readjusting to a kinder and gentler life at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah.

It was provided to the Mutts blog by Best Friends, and is used with the permission of National Geographic.

You'll see some of it again this summer (if you have Comcast digital cable) when the National Geographic Channel airs a segment of its new series Dogtown that will be devoted to the 22 pitbull type dogs that the federal courts sent to Best Friends.

Dogtown focuses on the stories of the canines who have come to live at Best Friends.

The Vick dogs at Best Friends were among 47 survivors of the dogfighting ring that operated out of Vick's Virginia estate.

Posted by John Woestendiek at 12:40 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

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thank you for providing the video. man's inhumanity can be so appalling, like with the scars on the one poor dog's head and face. And yet there are places like Best Friends that can help all of them....

Posted by: danielle | January 30, 2008 10:28 AM

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About Jill Rosen

Jill Rosen is a reporter at The Baltimore Sun. During her nearly 20 years in journalism, she has covered news and features — including a surprising number of stories that involved animals. There were the dog Christmas carolers in State College, Pa. There were the hounds who toured with a production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The story of a preschool teacher at Baltimore’s Father Kolbe School who had to replace her class guinea pig, who died over the winter holiday. A harrowing tale of what it was like to make homemade pet food ...

Though her clean freak of a mother refused to allow her to get a dog, she has had a number of pets through the years, including goldfish named Bob and Fingle, a betta fish named Ichabod, a wild rat terrier named Wendel, who she shared with a roommate, and, currently, sweet, sweet kitties named Leo Sesame and Milo Pumpkin and a little rescued pup named Teddy Bean. She, Leo, Pumpkin and Teddy Bean live in Baltimore.

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