From a legal standpoint all those facts are just assumptions. Why cant the man have 50 dogs? If he was a breeder, the man needed genetic material to work with. It is the same as going to a race horse breeder and ask why he has 50 horses. It does not matter what you or I think. It matters what was happening then and what exactly they did with the dogs, not the buyers. You have to prove commission of a crime, in order to have a crime. Otherwise, assumptions. If you have 50 pit bulls, of course some of them will get loose and get in a fight... Or how do we know he wasnt lending dogs to hog hunters? In court, you either have solid facts and evidence or you risk what just happened. If this case had anything to hold on to, he would have been sentenced. The amount of people (PETA, HSUS) who wanted to see them in prison and their lives destroyed was significant. Believe me, they tried. I just hope the Boudreauxs come back hard on those who destroyed a historical bloodline. This past weekend, I was speaking to a friend who happens to have Eli dogs and now more than ever he is holding tight to them, because you can no longer go to the source for quality Eli blood. Regardless, some of his dogs are still out there and being proven. They tried, but couldnt destroy this bloodline.