Click here to sign up. To subscribe, call 904.829.6586 Order Home Delivery Online Order or renew daily and Sunday home delivery of the Record for one year. SB1310 and HB1593 are making their way through the Florida House and Senate, and if passed will strengthen existing laws banning animal fighting. SB1310 and HB1593 are making their way through the Florida House and Senate, and if passed will strengthen existing laws banning animal fighting. Dogs are trained to fight until death, are injected with steroids, and are commonly trained on specially built treadmills where they are forced to run for hours to build endurance, or placed in pools and forced to swim to exhaustion and are only pulled out when they begin to drown.
Dogfights often last for several hours, as animals rip each other to shreds.
Most Floridians agree there is no place for dogfighting or cockfighting in a civilized society. Readers who agree should contact their state senator and representative and urge them to support legislation. The St. Augustine Record and Morris Digital Works . Please read our Privacy Policy. Advertise with us in print or online.