We had a neighbor in Palm Harbor Florida who kept pit bulls in his garage.

He tried walking his dogs from his car.

He caused injury to one of the dog's paws when he must have sped up too suddenly with the dog being dragged along. A neighborhood boy saw the blood from the dog's injury which the cops when called followed the blood trail to my neighbor's home.

The Humane Society got involved and threatened to take his dogs away. The media got involved and it was not long until my neighbor was getting death threats from animal lovers.

This was covered by both the local Clearwater/St. Petersburg/Tampa TV and newspapers.

http://www.pet-abuse.com/cases/1273/FL/US/

This neighbor moved away not too soon after this.