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Anthony Johnson Responds To Dog Abuse Accusations

September 4, 2015 | Posted by Joseph Lee

MMA Fighting reports that Anthony Johnson has responded to claims that he abuses his dogs. During the UFC 191 media day, Johnson spoke about the claims that he hurts his dogs after he admitted to cropping their ears. An online petition was filed four months ago to get Johnson released from UFC for his actions. Here are highlights:

On the abuse claims: “My dogs are well liked and well loved. I take my dogs everywhere. Somebody put I’m manipulating my dogs. Dude, I cropped his ears. I’m not beating the dog, I’m not starving the dog to death. Nothing like that. I definitely laugh at things like that, because everybody that knows me — even if you don’t know me and look at my Instagram, look at my Facebook and stuff — you can tell I love my dogs.”

On cropping his dogs’ ears: “I’m not what the media tries to make me out to be, but I am who I am. That whole kennel thing, that’s not even my dog and people want to make it sound like it’s my dog. But I do crop my dog’s ears. At the same time, they want to talk about dogs with cropped ears, they need to go after everybody. They’re just trying to target me just because.”

On loving dogs: “I don’t care. If you see my Instagram or my kennel Instagram — Facebook and all that stuff with my dogs — you can clearly tell my dogs are loved. They eat steaks every day. I eat freakin’ French fries. They eat steaks. I’m not worried about all that. If they want to go after my dogs, that’s fine. My dogs will sit there and look at them and smile at them if anything, with their tongues out. If they want to go after my dogs, go ahead.”

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