Ian Robb, chairman of Angus Help for Abandoned Animals, said it is well known that it is going on but people are too frightened to talk out against it.
He was speaking after The Courier reported Montrose residents believe cats are being stolen and used as baitby the organisers of illegal dog fights.
The organisers are thought to put the cats in cages or wheelie bins before pairs of savage dogs, such as bull terriers, are introduced and encouraged to maul them. Banned in Britain since 1835, the practice is supposedly used to prepare the terriers for illegal dog fights, training them to kill…