Michael Vick To Work With Humane Society On Anti-Dog Fighting Campaigns
Michael Vick To Work With Humane Society On Anti-Dog Fighting Campaigns stated Humane Society President Wayne Pacelle on Tuesday, May 19th, 2009.
Michael Vick will work on programs aimed at preventing youths from getting involved in dog fighting, and also on programs aimed at assisting youths who have been involved.
Vick, 28, was sentenced to a 23 month sentence in prison at Leavenworth, Kansas, prison after pleading guilty in August of 2007 to a federal charge of bankrolling a dog fighting operation at a home he owned in Virginia.
Michael Vick To Work With Humane Society On Anti-Dog Fighting Campaigns because the Humane Society was approached by Vick’s representatives. Humane Society President Wayne Pacelle did state that he did traveled to Kansas twice to meet with Michael Vick, and during the second visit, the two discussed how Vick could use his sway over youths to discourage them from involvement in dog fighting, as well as help those who were apprehended in connection with it.
Earlier this year, a federal bankruptcy judge denied a Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan presented by Vick, urging him to offer the court another plan to emerge from bankruptcy. The plan called for Vick to come up with $750,000 to $1 million in cash to be paid to creditors, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Frank Santoro stated, but added he saw no evidence Vick could come up with that much. Santoro then suggested that Micheal Vick’s next plan would not have him to keep two houses and three cars, as did the rejected proposal.
In testimony, Vick acknowledged committing a “heinous” act and stated that he should have acted more maturely. He stated he has been earning 12 cents an hour as an overnight janitor in prison. His Falcons salary, he said, was between $10 million and $12 million. He acknowledged failing to handle his money well.
Michael Vick will work at Newport News construction firm after his release. But the sports agent who negotiated Vick’s 10 year, $140 million contract with the Falcons testified that Vick will return to the game as soon as September if reinstated by the NFL. Meanwhile, he has also agreed to participate in a documentary for $600,000.
More attention has been paid to dog fighting as a result of Michael Vick’s case, Pacelle said. The Humane Society, which offers rewards for tips involving dog fighting, has recently paid out $40,000 in five different cases, he stated.
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Nothing he does will erase what he did NOTHING and that is a fact.
I wouldn’t want him around any of those dogs because I think they may feel from him what he did to those other innocent animals. But that is the way I feel but I could be wrong.
first of all m vick should not benefit dollar wise for any job he does for the
humane society and if he does it should all go to an animal foundation
this should be more than a slap on the hand, money should not get him out of this. he should be made to work with shelters for sometime. As far as returning to the NFL what kind of an impression does that instill to our youth who follow the sport, an look up to these players, I’m leaving in the south,now and sports are everything the young childern here, I teach kindergarten and I see it, bottom line
is, are these actions what we want childern looking up to. what he did is terrible,
think he should support or help support the dogs that did survie, an have our youth look up to the people that rescued the dogs. I wonder what his daughters
think of his actions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If Michael is looking to help out not only dog fighting but he should look into helping out Greyhound adoption groups like Kindred Spirts greyhound Adoption and rescue. They are a group in up satate new York looking to build a Greyhound sancanity for dogs that are waiting for adoptions. They need to raise $75,000.