• Dog fighting in the United States is an activity in which fights between two game dogs are staged as a form of entertainment and gambling. Such activity...
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    Dog fighting is a type of blood sport that turns game and fighting dogs against each other in a physical fight, often to the death, for the purposes of...
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  • The Bad Newz Kennels dog fighting investigation began in April 2007 with a search of property in Surry County, Virginia, owned by Michael Vick, who was...
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  • Fatal dog attacks in the United States cause the deaths of thirty to fifty people each year. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, there...
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    Pit bull (redirect from Pit Bull dog)
    several types of dog believed to have descended from bull and terriers. In the United States, the term is usually considered to include the American Pit Bull...
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    originally bred in Tosa, Shikoku (present-day Kōchi), as a fighting dog and is the only breed still used (legally) in Japanese dog fighting. Ownership is...
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    American Pit Bull Terrier (category Dog breeds originating in the United States)
    The American Pit Bull Terrier (APBT) is a dog breed recognized by the United Kennel Club (UKC) and the American Dog Breeders Association (ADBA), but not...
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    bull–type dogs or other dog breeds commonly used in dog fighting, and some government organizations such as the United States Army and Marine Corps have...
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    Devil Dog is a nickname for a United States Marine coined during World War I. Multiple publications of the United States Marine Corps claim that the nickname...
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  • Dognapping (redirect from Dog theft)
    Dognapping is the crime of taking a dog from its owner. The word is derived from the term kidnapping. Historically in the United States, dogs had been...
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    started with a Bull Terrier bitch with considerable fighting ability, which he bred to a spotted fighting dog of bulldog type. He selected and inter-bred their...
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    pictures of him with his new dog were sent all across the United States. Theodore Roosevelt was known for having many pets in the White House. He had six children...
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    2012) was the first active duty, fully fit military working dog to be granted early retirement in order to be adopted. Working for his United States Marine...
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    type of dog bite is the "soft bite" displayed by well-trained dogs, by puppies, and in non-aggressive play. Dog bites can occur during dog fighting, as a...
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    Mastiff (redirect from Mastiff-type dog)
    "bandog" was revived to describe some large fighting mastiff type dogs crossed with any bulldog in the United States. Oxford Dictionaries 2019. Young & Bannasch...
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  • some fighting mad". USA Today. Spivak, Todd (2006-08-24). "Hog Wild". Houston Press. p. 3. Hog-Dog Fights : The Humane Society of the United States Royal...
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  • Ace the Bat-Hound is a superhero dog appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. He is commonly featured as the canine crime-fighting partner...
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    The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. Since the 1850s, its main political rival has been the...
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    in the United States for the fourth consecutive year. According to the AKC's website, though, the boxer is now the 11th-most popular dog breed in the United...
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    methods, in the United States government. Corruption in the United States has been a perennial political issue, peaking in the Jacksonian era and the Gilded...
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    The Pyrenean Mountain Dog or Chien de Montagne des Pyrénées is a French breed of livestock guardian dog; in France it is commonly called the Patou. It...
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  • primarily for one hit song in the United States, who are regarded as one-hit wonders by at least two sources in media even though the artist may have had multiple...
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    The Dog Soldiers or Dog Men (Cheyenne: Hotamétaneo'o) are historically one of six Cheyenne military societies. Beginning in the late 1830s, this society...
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    Duane Chapman (redirect from Dog Chapman)
    1953), also known as Dog the Bounty Hunter, is an American television personality, bounty hunter, and former bail bondsman. In 1976, Chapman was convicted...
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  • Dog is a 1975 American black comedy science fiction film directed by actor L. Q. Jones, from a screenplay by Jones based on the 1969 novella of the same...
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  • Willis. Alpha Dog had its world premiere at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival on January 27, 2006, and was released in the United States on January 12,...
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  • Dogs in the United States have been involved in activities separate from their role in individual families. Dog racing started in 1919 after the opening...
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  • survivors in the former United States are male, as women were usually in the bombed cities while many men were out fighting in the war. In the novella,...
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    the Akita Inu. The direct ancestor of the Akita Inu was a dog kept as a guard dog and fighting dog by samurai and wealthy farmers in the Ōdate area, and...
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    the world’s dog breeds come from the United Kingdom, France and Germany. It states: "Great Britain and France are the ground zero of dog fancying, with...
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