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00:00 To me, she is Little. That's the nickname that I call her.
00:04 Come on, Little. There you go, baby. Off we go.
00:08 Her body has scars all over it.
00:11 Most people don't see that, though, especially if she has on one of her coats.
00:15 They just think she's an old little dog.
00:18 And for a lot of people, that's as far as I want to take it.
00:23 Sometimes I just don't want her to have that negative attention.
00:28 I don't know how she survived or why she survived, but she did.
00:33 Some of the dog fighters want to say, "Oh, they love it."
00:43 They've been manipulated into this.
00:46 If you don't cut it as a fighting dog, then they'll kill you.
00:51 The traditional, historic relationship with dogs and fight bus
00:55 was simply to regard them as damaged goods and to kill them.
00:58 We'd been advocating for their survival.
01:01 We'd been advocating for them to be given a chance.
01:04 How could we not step forward and give them that chance
01:06 if we were the only ones who could?
01:09 Most of the time, people don't even hear about dog fighting cases.
01:13 Because of the status of one defendant in particular,
01:18 the general public started asking, "Why do you have to kill these dogs?"
01:24 Come say hi. Come say hello.
01:27 Officers found treadmills, whips, chains, injectable drugs--
01:31 one of the biggest and most elaborate dog fighting compounds they've ever seen.
01:36 The best that we could hope for was that we could show the general public
01:43 that you don't have to be afraid of the dogs
01:45 just because of the situation that they came from.
01:52 We never thought twice about taking a dog from a fighting situation.
01:56 We always thought it was going to be a lifelong journey for Cherry,
02:00 but we also didn't think he would come this far.
02:03 Good boy.
02:05 All of the dogs, not just Cherry, have taken this opportunity
02:08 to really show the world why shouldn't we have the chance.
02:12 No one will ever, ever hurt this dog ever again.
02:16 And I think she believes that now.
02:19 Let's go, Dittos.
02:21 This is where she was meant to be.
02:24 She knows that she's home.
02:28 [♪♪♪]
02:31 (music)
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