In a recent interview, Judah Batista, the chief sanctuary officer and co-founder of the Best Friends Animal Society, shed light on the challenges faced by animal shelters and the efforts to rehabilitate dogs involved in dogfighting scenarios. Best Friends Animal Society is a national organization dedicated to preventing animal killings and operates the largest sanctuary for homeless animals in the United States.
Batista explained that encounters with dogfighting situations are not as frequent as one might expect. Instead, the organization is more connected to the challenges shelters face in finding homes for these dogs. However, they do come across such scenarios a couple of times a year, often at a local level.
