Tux Life

Please take two minutes to help keep a dogfighting kingpin in jail...

sayyes:

I don’t post many things like this on ye olde blog, but it will take so little time and help to make a big difference. South Carolina, which is often the (justifiable) laughingstock of the country for its political shitstorms, finally did something very, very right in 2004—the S.C. Attorney General decided to set an example with dogfighter and breeder David Tant, who pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 30 years in prison. This link takes you to an online petition that the SPCA will present to the parole board at a hearing for Tant that will be held on Sept. 8.

Tant, once considered one of the top “fighting pit bull” breeders in the country, was only caught because he set up a “booby-trapped shotgun” on the periphery of his property and it went off and injured someone. Rest assured that if that gun hadn’t gone off, this bastard would still be killing, maiming, torturing, and permanently damaging dogs (and almost certainly lots of other animals) today, just as he will return to doing it if he gets out of jail (24 years before his sentence is up).

At the Animal Legal Defense Fund website, they have a more in-depth explanation of the sickening evidence found on Tant’s property, plus a link to send a letter opposing Tant’s parole directly to the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon.

More info, from the ASPCA website: “In 2004, North Charleston resident David Tant pleaded guilty to 41 dog fighting charges and an assault charge. Tant was one of the nation’s most active dog fighters and breeder of fighting dogs. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison, which was reduced to 30 years after he paid more than $80,000 in restitution to the Charleston Animal Society (CAS) for the care of 47 dogs seized. … [In July 2010,] the Board voted 2 to 1 to grant Tant parole. However, since there was one dissenting vote, the case must now be heard by the full seven-member Parole Board, with the final decision based on the majority. The new parole hearing date is set for September 8 in Columbia, SC, and representatives from the ASPCA will return to make even stronger arguments.”