About 15 years ago, a group of animal-loving, tattooed bikers in the New York area began acting on behalf of abused animals. The men volunteered at shelters and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty Toward Animals, and they tried to solve cases of missing or abused animals that other organizations had neither the time nor the resources to address.
The men rescue pedigreed animals sold for a pittance to buy drugs, animals used for fighting and bait, and colonies of feral cats that angry neighbors have tried to shoot or poison. They have received calls from Australia ("Dingoes, I guess," Angel said) and reports of a serial cat killer in Pennsylvania.
They hand cases of criminal activities to the police. "That's not our specialty," Mr. Missari said. "We specialize in getting the abuser away from the dog. We truly work with the abuser. We go to a house; if it's really cold out, we see two dogs in the back, we build them a doghouse." Read the entire story in the New York Times. For information on the biker resue group named Rescue Ink see their site.
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Real Men like cats and dogs... (Below threshold)1. Posted by langtry | August 26, 2008 10:25 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Real Men like cats and dogs!
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