Michael Vick and his Dad

Michael Boddie holds up a photo of him with his wife, Brenda Vick Boddie and son Michael Vick, taken in happier times.QB's dad says he didn't abandon family By BY MATT KEMPNER

The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionPublished on: 08/24/07Michael Vick's father said he pushed his son to quit dogfighting years ago or, at least, put property used for the fights in the name of friends to avoid being implicated some day.Michael Boddie, in two sometimes tearful interviews with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution this week, said some time around 2001 his son staged dogfights in the garage of the family's home in Newport News, Va. Boddie also said Vick kept fighting dogs in the family's backyard, including injured ones — "bit up, chewed up, exhausted" — that the father nursed back to health.longtime friends were the main instigators of the dogfighting operation."I wish people would stop sugarcoating it," Boddie said. "This is Mike's thing. And he knows it."He "likes it, and he has the capital to have a set up like that."Daniel Meachum, an attorney for Vick, said his client never mentioned situations described by Boddie, nor discussed Boddie in relation to dog activities. "It's a disgrace Mr. Boddie, who chose for nearly 22 years not to be part of Mike's life, would at this time seek to capitalize on his son's current situation."Vick's mother, Brenda Vick Boddie, who hasn't lived with her husband for the past five years, did not return calls seeking comment.Boddie said he and the Atlanta Falcons quarterback have had a volatile relationship for years and that his son has refused to speak with him directly for the last 2 1/2 half months. Boddie said he is speaking out because he's been hurt by his son and wife's failure over the years to correct what he considers inaccurate media reports that Vick grew up without his father present."I've been drug through the mud," Boddie said.He said he intends to write a damaging book about more of what he knows.Boddie, 45, lives in a Duluth apartment that his son has paid the rent on for the last three years. Vick, who has a $130 million contract with the Falcons, also gives him a couple of hundred dollars every week or two, the father said.Boddie wanted more. Two years ago, he said, he asked Vick for $1 million, spread out over 12 years, enough to keep him comfortable for the rest of his life. Vick declined, the father said. In recent weeks, Boddie asked Vick, through an assistant, for $700,000 to live on.Boddie said he hasn't been contacted by federal investigators pursuing dogfighting accusations against Vick. A federal grand jury indicted Vick with one count of conspiracy to cross state lines to engage in illegal gambling; to sponsor a dog in an animal fighting venture; and to buy, transport and receive dogs for animal fighting.The indictment does not mention the parents' former home in Newport News, where Boddie said he cared for Vick's pit bulls and where he said three dogfighting session were held, roughly around the time that Vick was transitioning from college football to the pros.Earlier this week, Vick agreed to plead guilty Monday in the federal dogfighting case in Richmond. He faces prison and the possible end of his football career. Three co-defendants already pleaded guilty and were expected to testify against Vick if the case went to trial. In addition, a Virginia prosecutor is considering bringing state charges against Vick.Anger and anguishBoddie lives in an apartment, just a few miles from where his son lives in the upscale, gated Sugarloaf neighborhood. Posters of the football star are thumb-tacked to the walls of a guest bedroom. A picture of Vick's two young children is framed on a wall near the kitchen. Hung on a wall beside the kitchen sink is a long list entitled "Quick Drink Recipes."In language blanketed with profanity, a sometimes sitting, sometimes pacing Boddie recounted what he said was some, but not all, of what he knows about his son. At times while discussing his wife and children, Boddie appeared to alternate between anger and anguish. His cellphone rang several times. At one point he answered, paused, unleashed an expletive-laced torrent of words and marched out of the apartment with the phone to his ear. He later said the caller was an assistant of Michael Vick's who asked what he planned to disclose to a reporter and urged him to keep quiet."I know some things," Boddie said. "That's why they're going crazy."He said he's not perfect. He said he hasn't worked since 2003, went through drug rehab in 2004 paid for by his son, was sometimes high or drunk around his children when they were young, has gotten in trouble for drinking and driving and had his driver's license revoked."There are some things I wish I could go back and change," he said.But Boddie said he gave Vick something that most kids didn't have in the Newport News housing projects where both grew up: "I never left his side. Never left his mother's side. And where we come from, this day and time, that's a hell of a thing."He and Vick's mother weren't married when Michael Vick was born. But they married later and Boddie said he lived with the family from the time Vick was 3 years old until after his eldest son went to Virginia Tech to play football. He said he was usually working during Vick's youth, often on jobs sandblasting and repainting ships.He said he is frustrated about continued suggestions that Vick was raised without a father. He said his son and wife should have set the record straight.But in a 2001 AJC article about their son, his wife was quoted as saying that Boddie's presence in Vick's childhood "means a lot to me.""He was always there, providing, taking care of what needed to be taken care of. Through everything, we stayed together as a family. I have a lot of respect for him for that."But in other press reports, both Michael Vick and his mother suggested that Boddie was an emotionally distant father. He "never paid that much attention to me," Vick said, according to a Sports Illustrated story in 2000.Boddie said that, over the last year, his son has been disrespecting him, "talking to me like I'm one of his . . . dogs."Boddie said he's tried to look out for his son. Around 2002, while at Vick's rural property near Smithfield, Va., he warned his son."I told him basically, 'You don't need to be doing this. You got bigger fish to fry. You got more important things that you can do.' "Boddie recalled telling his son to transfer the property to the name of one of his friends: " 'Take this place right now, put it in one of their names because if anything goes wrong . . . it's you they coming after.' "Boddie said he doesn't recall his son's reply.Boddie also said dogfighting occurred at the family's Newport News home on Terrace Drive. The family was in the house for about a year or more as Vick moved from playing college football at Virginia Tech to the pros.Boddie said he cleaned out the home's garage three times in 2001 to make room for dogfighting sessions held by Vick and his friends."I hung around long enough to actually walk in there when an actual dogfight was going on," Boddie said, but he added that he didn't stay long."It wasn't my thing," he said.He said he had already witnessed test fights of dogs — in which dogs battle to see how well a prospective fighter will perform."It's really something to stand there and watch. You have to have the stomach for it," he said.Boddie said Michael Vick kept pit bulls in eight cages in the backyard of the Terrace Drive home.However, a neighbor, Willie-Mae Hansell, said she only saw one dog at the house, and never heard anything unusual there."I fed the dogs," Boddie said. "I've nursed them back to health, dogs that have been in fights. Raised litters of puppies."The injured dogs could barely muster up enough strength to eat at first, he said.Boddie contends that Vick's mother was aware of the dogfighting and said he heard her tell her son to stop it.Boddie said of his son: "I think he basically told her, 'OK, Mama. OK, I'll stop.' "Boddie said he wasn't aware of any dogfighting in the Newport News projects when Vick grew up there. The closest he recalled was kids being fascinated as dogs chased stray cats in a nearby lumber yard.He said that, despite his earlier warnings to his son, he never expected Vick would someday face the dogfighting troubles he is in now."I thought he would have gotten out of it by then, gotten it out of his system."

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WE ARE THIS DOGS LAST HOPE

Hi my name is Banjo and I am lucky to have found my way to the local animal shelter. An animal control officer found me wandering down the highway, and in pretty bad shape. I arrived smelling of oil and grease with a rope tied around my neck. Not to mention my bones showing, an eye missing , and wounds to my body. I had my temperament test done and passed with flying colors. (This poor dog who had someone or something rip his eye out of the socket, maybe drag him down the street tied to a vehicle with terrible wounds on his back and starved to death passed with flying colors.) How could this poor loving dog receive such a wonderful evaluation with all that has happened to him? He is described as extremely friendly and even wags his nub and loves yes LOVES people. He is comfortable with his entire body being touched. He will sit with some assistance. He is well behaved on leash and shows no toy possession. He even plays a little fetch. When he met a cat he wagged his nub but did not jump up to get the cat on the counter. He shows little or no interest in other dogs, boys or girls, big or small. He rides well and is sweet and quiet. The shelter says he has an excellent personality to be a great companion despite his poor health condition. He would be gentle for children or older adults.

UPDATE-8/8/07 Jay(NCRR volunteer) picks up Banjo from his temp foster home in Raleigh. Banjo sees him and runs to him….YESRUNS to him. He remembers him from the first day he was brought into the NCRRfoster program and from his trip from Burlingtonto Raleigh this past weekend. We almost cried. Banjo was evaluated by Dr. Betts today and will have FHO surgery today for his broken hip. Dr. Betts is hopeful for a full recovery as Banjo has been trying to walk on the leg with the broken hip. Hispelvic fracture is healing. Dr. Betts will check out the surgery site where hiseye was removed to ensure it is healing well. Xrays will be taken of his faceif needed. His pelvic fracture is healing well so no worries there. Itis believed Banjo can be transported to his FUREVER home this weekend and doPhysical Therapy at home instead of going to a rehab facility. Estimated cost of Banjo’s FHO is $1400.00, a betterprice than the original estimate of $3500 It is thought that Banjo may be the product of a dogfighting ring considering the bite wounds on his back and that he may have beenbeat by a person with a blunt object. I guess we will never know whatreally happened to poor Banjo. NCRR is asking all the Rottie lovers out there to donatemoney to help pay for Banjo's medical treatment. All donations are taxdeductible and can be made thru pay pal or sent to NCRR 5613 Old Ridge RoadRaleigh, NC 27610. Please put Banjo in the memo OR you can make adonation by pay pal to ncrottierescue@gmail.com A receipt will be mailed to you. A HUGE thank you goesout to the people who have already sent in donations.

UPDATE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 8/1 UPDATE: The vet who removed Banjo’s eye has informed us he will need to have his face wired together due to the cheek being broken. He is not growing any new bone in his face to close the bones that are broken. UPDATE: Banjo’s eye was removed Friday, July 27, 2007. When the vet found the eye she noted it was almost split in half. Xrays show his cheek is broken in 3 places. This confirms he was hit in the head with a blunt object. The vet also did “plastic” surgery on the gash below Banjo’s eye. Xrays of his hip were sent to an orthopedist and it was discovered he has a broken hip. He will be referred to have his hip repaired. NCRR is collecting donations for his hip surgery. His eye surgery was paid for by a very generous kind person who is adopting Cindy. Thank you Joan! We do not have a price on Banjo’s hip surgery but we expect it will be expensive. Banjo has no idea he just lost his eye and has a broken hip. He is the ideal companion and is very loving. Many people have expressed interest in adopting him and giving him a loving furever home. He has a family waiting for him in PA but we have to “fix” his hip before he can go home

Update 7/23/07: Banjo arrives at his NCRR foster home. What a wonderful boy! Just wonderful and beautiful! The wounds on his back are not burns-they are dog bites...healing well, hair is growing back. There is an eye where it was originally thought that there was no eye. He may have been beaten with a blunt object. Banjo will go to the vet to get xrays of his face to see what damage has been done to his face to make his eye sink into his head. He has started using his back leg....we are waiting to see what progress is made with him putting weight on it. It is obvious Banjo's medical expenses are going to be extra ordinary. He may require facial reconstruction or the eye may not be able to be saved. The best news is that Banjo has an adoptive home waiting for him. Now we have to get him all 'fixed" up and beautiful to go home.

Please visit The North Carolina Rottweiler rescue website and make a donation to help me get through all i need to ! and Thanks for opening your heart to help me ! http://www.ncrottierescue.net/

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