The Champions | movie | 2015 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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00:00 To me, she is Little. That's the nickname that I call her.

00:04 Come on, Little. There you go, baby. Off we go.

00:08 Her body has scars all over it.

00:11 Most people don't see that, though, especially if she has on one of her coats.

00:15 They just think she's an old little dog.

00:18 And for a lot of people, that's as far as I want to take it.

00:23 Sometimes I just don't want her to have that negative attention.

00:28 I don't know how she survived or why she survived, but she did.

00:33 Some of the dog fighters want to say, "Oh, they love it."

00:43 They've been manipulated into this.

00:46 If you don't cut it as a fighting dog, then they'll kill you.

00:51 The traditional, historic relationship with dogs and fight bus

00:55 was simply to regard them as damaged goods and to kill them.

00:58 We'd been advocating for their survival.

01:01 We'd been advocating for them to be given a chance.

01:04 How could we not step forward and give them that chance

01:06 if we were the only ones who could?

01:09 Most of the time, people don't even hear about dog fighting cases.

01:13 Because of the status of one defendant in particular,

01:18 the general public started asking, "Why do you have to kill these dogs?"

01:24 Come say hi. Come say hello.

01:27 Officers found treadmills, whips, chains, injectable drugs--

01:31 one of the biggest and most elaborate dog fighting compounds they've ever seen.

01:36 The best that we could hope for was that we could show the general public

01:43 that you don't have to be afraid of the dogs

01:45 just because of the situation that they came from.

01:52 We never thought twice about taking a dog from a fighting situation.

01:56 We always thought it was going to be a lifelong journey for Cherry,

02:00 but we also didn't think he would come this far.

02:03 Good boy.

02:05 All of the dogs, not just Cherry, have taken this opportunity

02:08 to really show the world why shouldn't we have the chance.

02:12 No one will ever, ever hurt this dog ever again.

02:16 And I think she believes that now.

02:19 Let's go, Dittos.

02:21 This is where she was meant to be.

02:24 She knows that she's home.

02:28 [♪♪♪]

02:31 (music)

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