Scientists are hoping that a new DNA database for dogs will help track -- and prosecute -- people who breed dogs to fight. But advocates say there's a risk that the DNA records could be used against the dogs, or against people who adopt them.
The idea is to have a canine version ofFBI's CODIS -- a database of human DNA that isused to connect criminals to crime scenes. But in this case, the DNA might help prove that breeders supplied dogs to a dogfighting ring.
In July 2009, a dogfighting operation was raided in northwest Missouri.Tim Rickey, the senior director of field operations for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,recalls the scene from that morning.
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