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This brutal practice has nothing to do with the "sport" of dog fighting, the ASPCA's Randall Lockwood tells us. "It's just brutality."

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It does happen, but trunking "has nothing to do with the sport of dog fighting," the ASPCA's Randall Lockwood tells us. "It's just brutality."
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