They are just dogs, If we were talking about Human beings it would be a differnet story!

When PETA staff found Rikus, he was bloody, limping, and suffering from severe and untreated dog fighting injuries. He was tethered to a tree in his owner's back yard. Nearby, our staff found Santana, another injured pit bull who had multiple scars from earlier fights as well as a broken leg and other injuries. The vast majority of animals who are bred to fight and kill are not adoptable and have to be euthanized—another tragic consequence of dog fighting. Roscoe and two other pit bulls, Mylie and Buck, starved to death in the dead of winter, trapped at the end of heavy chains in the back yard of their owner's home. Thanks to PETA's anti-cruelty casework, their owner was charged, prosecuted, and convicted in late June of three counts of cruelty to animals. He told our caseworker that "dogs die every day ... so what's the big deal?" Necropsies revealed that the dogs had suffered over many weeks with ailments including hookworms, whipworms, and heartworm disease. All were half their normal body weight at the time of their death.