INDIANAPOLIS -- Warren Patitz and his organization wants central Indiana to know that it has a huge and dangerous problem in dogfighting.

Patitz created Move To Act two years ago to combat animal-related problems in central Indiana. One of its goals is to show that people need to be confronted if dogfighting is to be curbed.

"The focus is always on the dog breed when it really needs to be the focus on the responsibility of the person who has that dog," said Patitz, the RTV6 Leadership Award winner for May 19. "Dangerous dogs are owned by dangerous people."

Patitz also says central Indiana often avoids the root causes of animal population problems. He says shelters destroy 40 to 60 animals per day.

"Excellent animals are surrendered every day at our shelters and abandoned on the streets, and instead of getting a purebred or (an animal) from a pet store, which shouldn't even be a consideration, they need to be visiting the institutions in our community that house these animals for a short period of time before they're destroyed," Patitz said.

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