RICHMOND - U.S. District Court Judge Henry E. Hudson granted a motion to divvy up Michael Vick's former fighting dogs between eight animal-rescue organizations, including the local Animal Rescue of Tidewater.
In paperwork filed Thursday, Hudson agreed to the recommendations made by the court-appointed guardian for the dogs, Rebecca J. Huss, a law professor at Valparaiso University School of Law in Indiana. The recommendations included paying the organizations a total of $610,000. Each of the 22 pit bulls deemed likely for adoption by the public after time in a foster home to assess behavior and provide training come with a $5,000 stipend.
Each of the other 25 dogs would come with $20,000. These dogs are "likely to spend a significant amount of time, if not the dog's remaining lifetime, in an environment that would control the dog's interaction with people or other animals while it receives necessary socialization and training," the court papers said. "The need to control a dog's interaction with people is to make certain that a dog that is shy or withdrawn has only positive interactions with people."
The dogs were seized in April from property Vick, a Newport News native and NFL quarterback, owned in Surry County. Vick is to be sentenced Monday on a federal dogfighting conspiracy charge. Two of his co-defendants were already sentenced, and the last co-defendant will be sentenced Dec. 14.
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