And the Dogs Were Silent

When graduate student Jere Alexander began her research on human-animal relationships, she couldn't have foreseen that months later she would find herself embedded in the illegal underground world of professional dogfighting. Follow her harrowing journey from student to "dogwoman" to director of one of the largest animal shelters in the United States, a position that would lead to a battle against public hate and persecution.

This is the diary of one dog-lover's nightmare.