Trunking is dog fighting’s dirty little secret [The More You Know]

If you think that regular old dog fighting is fucked up and cruel, you haven’t seen trunking, which takes the fine art of psychologically screwing up dogs to train them to eat their brethren to a whole new level. The premise is simple– take two bloodthirsty, really pissed off dogs and instead of letting them break each other’s legs in a ring, put them in a ill-fitting trunk and drive around the neighborhood with the two dogs locked in confused, darkened combat until one of them is just a pile of mincemeat.

Capt. Steve Shatkin of the New Jersey SPCA described trunking to Pet Pulse at the state’s headquarters in New Brunswick.

“Two dogs will be thrown, literally, into the trunk of a car like this,” Shatkin said, pointing to a mid-sized car in NJSPCA’s parking lot. “(The) trunk is closed, and the operators either drive around for a set period of time, or just leave them in there with the trunk closed.”

“And after a certain time, open the trunk, and the best man left is standing. And it’s a bloody mess in there, and that’s how they declare a winner.”

The carcass of the defeated dog is typically tossed to the side of the road, says Hardiman, who also is a pit bull advocate.

“Once in a while I’ve seen it, OK?” Hardiman said. “I know some guys may have put some dogs in a trunk. They fought, and then the next thing you know they turned the music up real loud — for about 15 minutes, maybe 30 minutes.

“And then you open up the trunk, one of the dogs might be dead, the other one might be mangled up.”

Really, if you’re looking to make some money off of betting on animal fighting, why not go for insect fighting? It’s legal and frankly there’s just way too many god damn insects anyway. Via: Afrojacks

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