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Good Newz Rehab Center: An update
from ohmidog!
on Monday August 22nd, 2011 at 10:52 AM
As public relations professionals go about rehabilitating Michael Vicks image, his old place is getting a makeover, too.
Inside the home that once served as headquarters forBad Newz Kennels in Surry County, Virginia, the quarterbacks cream colored carpet has been ripped up and replaced with rubberized flooring; his oversized tiled shower is now being used for doggie baths.
Dogs Deserve Better, which bought Vicks former home, continues its work to turn it into arehabilitation center for chained...
Dog Rehab Group Buys Michael Vick’s Former Virginia Home
from Dog Files
on Thursday July 7th, 2011 at 11:12 AM
A non-profit group of animal activists has purchased Michael Vicks former home in Surry County, Virginia.
The house that was once used to train fighting dogs will soon be a rehabilitation center for dogs, mostly ones that have been chained or penned.
The group called Dogs Deserve Better was based in Pennsylvania and has just moved its headquarters to Vicks former home.
Just driving up the driveway the first time, I had to break out my video camera because it just seemed so dark back there with...
Dogs arrive at Michael Vick’s former home
from ohmidog!
on Tuesday July 5th, 2011 at 01:40 PM
The first eight rescue dogs have arrived at the home once owned by Michael Vick in Surry County, Virginia.
Once the home base of a dog fighting operation, the 15-acre property was bought in May by Dogs Deserve Better, which hopes to rehabilitate hundreds of formerly chained, penned or abused dogs there.
We want this place to be a memorial to all the dogs who lost their lives here, said the groups founder, Tamira Thyne, who acknowledged the propertys past is a haunting one. Its creepy, she told...
Dear Michael Vick
from ohmidog!
on Wednesday June 1st, 2011 at 02:13 PM
Ive never liked the open letter. Its a cheapgimmick that allows the writer to pretend to be writing to someone when youre really taking aim at them. Its a feeble attempt toget the attention of someone who neither knows who you are, nor cares what you have to say. It lets you, the writer,ride on their celebrity while youmake a point, ostensibly to them, but really to the world. Open letters are highly presumptuous, and a little rude.
Nevertheless, Dear Michael Vick
I see an opportunity for you....
Dogs Deserve Better closes on Vick house
from ohmidog!
on Wednesday June 1st, 2011 at 10:30 AM
Its a done deal: Dogs Deserve Better, a nonprofit group that fightschaining, penning and other forms of cruelty to dogs,has closed on Michael Vicks old house the former headquarters of the quarterbacks dogfighting operation, Bad Newz Kennels.
Dogs Deserve Better plans to turn the property in Surry County, Virginia, into a center to rehabilitate and resocialize dogs that have been mistreated and abused, with thehope of finding them adoptive homes.
The name of the facilitywill be: The Good Newz...
Michael Vick’s former house sits empty
from ohmidog!
on Tuesday August 24th, 2010 at 08:13 PM
Im not sure why I wanted to visit 1915 Moonlight Road maybe for the same reason people visit Nazi death camps, Ground Zero and other scenes of slaughter.
Maybe its in part to pay respects to those who died and suffered, in part to remind ourselves of how evil man can be that whole business about keeping history fresh enough in our minds that we dont allow the mistakes of the past to be repeated.
Maybe (last maybe, I promise) thats also why you still find Michael Vick stories on ohmidog! and...
Vick to finish sentence at home, report says
from ohmidog!
on Saturday February 28th, 2009 at 12:33 PM
Michael Vick will be allowed to serve the last two months of his sentence under home confinement because there is no room at a halfway house for him, a government official told the Associated Press.The former NFL quarterback is serving a 23-month sentence at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kan., after pleading guilty to bankrolling [...]
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