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Cheyenne was shot and killed by a neighbor in November. Later a second dog with the same lineage, Bear, belonging to Staggs disappeared.
Staggs thinks his dogs were taken to participate in dog fights.
“They wanted Cheyenne because she had already whipped his pit bull,” said Staggs, pointing the finger at a neighbor for killing one dog and taking the other. “They were going to fight her until I started looking for her, then they killed her. They had held it for three days then executed it with three point-blank shots to the head.”
“There is a dog fighting ring down here and somebody’s covering it up. Dog fighting is an organized crime and they want it to go away,” Staggs said. “Why they are trying to cover it up, God only knows, unless they are involved or being blackmailed.”
Staggs could not provide a specific location on where the dog fighting was taking place. He also could not definitively confirm the names of anyone involved in dog fighting though he has his “suspicions.”
Lavaca County Sheriff Micah Harmon said to his knowledge there is no organized dog fighting taking place in the county.