As an animal lover this was a really hard book to read and I almost put it down several times at the beginning. I do try to understand that Michael Vicks came from a deprived background, that he saw dog fighting as a kid, that he came into immense wealth as a very young man, and that he was supporting a wide circle of family and friends with that wealth... But none of that makes it possible for me to excuse or understand the extreme cruelty he personally inflicted on these dogs. One of the saddest things you learn in this book is how pathetic most of these dogs really were; the majority of them weren't vicious fighters at all, which is why they were so brutally killed. Once they were rescued, a few of the dogs showed aggression to people or other dogs, and ended up permanently living in sanctuaries, but the majority were simply unsocialized and terrified of people. They ended up adopted by families and living ordinary doggy lives.