I agree that Wayne Pacelle is a douchebag, but some of the blame of the destruction of those dogs do go on the breeders. Floyd wasn't exactly hiding where some of his dogs were ending up. Ed Faron was the king of stupid. Not only did he walk into that trap willingly, I've seen dogs bought directly from him in DOG PARKS. That guy would sell to anybody with the cash whether they be undercover cops or clueless idiots.
Maybe the dogmen should be battering down the hatches, and NOT selling and advertising to the public. I see that Tom Garner has THIRTEEEN litters listed on his page. Who needs thirteen litters at a time unless they are a puppy mill? To be honest, I'm surprised he hasn't been busted yet. I know that his dogs aren't all going to pet homes, and if they are, that almost depresses me more than the alternative.
I don't know Ed personally or Garner.
But I did know and do know Floyd. And in the end, I still don't believe one can be held responsible for what their dog does under someone else's ownership 3 years removed. It's the same reason I don't find fault with gun manufacturers when they are sued all because someone used a Magnum .357 to kill someone else.
Floyd had nothing to hide. Nothing "incriminating" was found at his house. I still find it humorous that they bragged about his "fighting roosters" and some "steroids" when cockfighting was perfectly legal and those steroids were a prescription for Predisone...for a human. Yeah, um...corticosteroids aren't the same thing as anabolic steroids thus they would have no affect on getting a dog, or bird, into fighting shape (but then again, it's common knowledge that 'roids makes a dog run hot and dehydrate quickly, so why would anyone with a brain want that?) And his treadmill? A rusty junkheap that wouldn't work unless the Lord himself had fixed it.
In this case, Laura Maloney wanted fame. And she got it. Too bad it wasn't the kind she was looking for. But in the end, a man lost his dogs.....a couple who died of heat stroke in the holding vans because the vans weren't running. Talk about justice.
Floyd deserved his acquittal. There was no evidence other than the trumped up stuff by the LA-SPCA and the HSUS which magically never appeared after the raid took place. But then again, I don't think that was truly ever the point. The point of the raid was to break the man and kill his dogs and try to put an end to the bloodline. They got 1 out of 3.