In 1966, Congress began receiving more letters regarding animal abuse than they did for civil rights and the Vietnam War. The problem even became apparent to athlete-celebrity Michael Vick when his participation in dog fighting shocked his fans. He explained in his reality show that dog fighting was common in Germantown, Pennsylvania (Vick, 2010). Understandably, dog fighting would seem like a norm since it dates back to the twelfth century when Britain wanted to challenge the strength of their dogs after the Roman invasion of Britain. As the dog's opponents became bigger, Europe banned disproportional animal fighting in 1835. Before the ban, the treatment closely resembled that of slavery. Even if someone governmentally owns something, he or she doesn't have the right to abuse it. Slaves were owned, but their masters didn't have the humanistic right to put their hands on them. But dog fighting was notably a sport just as it took a little over a century for the slavery mindset to become nebulous in society.