Sick people

From a local listserv:

Please take a moment to Google 'trunking dog fighting'
Become educated about this terrible problem that has made it easier for dog fighters to evade authorities.

Trunking has left the cities and is now happening in suburbs and rural areas. 'Refs' take two fighting dogs, usually pit bulls, and put them into the trunk of a car to fight to the death. They turn the music up very loud in order to conceal the dogfight. Once the fighting stops, they reveal the winner and usually throw the dead, defeated dog on the side of the road. The 'winner' is usually mauled and injured too. Often Trunking takes place in parking lots, sometimes they drive around while the dogs are fighting.

Whenever you are out and hear loud music, if you can safely do so, listen to see if you can hear a dog fight too. Please notify the local authorities with whatever information you can safely obtain; make of the car, tag, description of people, location, date and time of the incident, etc.

Together we can make a difference. Please pass this on to other animals lovers.

And a response from Durham County Animal Control:

Well the description you see below is accurate. They also have races with two cars involved going to a particular site. The first one there with dogs in the worse shape win. Also, keep in mind, they are having dog/hog fights now where the dogs fight will boar. They are having stallion fights where they pit two stallions together and using a female horse (mare) in heat to tease, cause the horses to fight. All of these are brutal sports. There have been several cases of “trunking” caught in Charlotte. I am not sure what other cities are seeing it, to the point they can catch it happening. It could easily be happening right around us without our knowledge. As with anything vigilance and knowledge in our communities is our best deterrent. Thanks for your continued support of Animal Control.

Perhaps this will give our law enforcement personnel the impetus they need to start pulling over cars which are already in violation of our city and county's noise ordinances?