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"I just wish they'd put him in jail and be done with it.

"Just put him in prison and tell the general public, just give them all the details of what they do with those dogs. How they steal people's dogs out of their front yards and use them for bait dogs and let other dogs kill them. There's all the horrifying stories. You look at all the pictures on the Internet of the dogs, just maimed, mangled. It's horrible.

Biffle hopes the Vick case will call attention to the widespread problem of the "dog-fighting underworld":

"It goes on everywhere. He's not the only guy. It goes on in [Michigan] too. Maybe they'll use him as an example and maybe get some other people to think about whether they want to be in federal prison with him or not."

We can only hope.

In 2005, Biffle and his finacée, Nicole Lunders, co-founded The Greg Biffle Foundation to "create awareness and serve as advocates to improve the well-being of animals by engaging the power and passion of the motorsports industry." Since its inception, the Foundation has awarded grants totaling more than $100,000 to humane societies and animal shelters across the country.

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