Where are Michael Vick's dogs now?

As Michael Vick takes another step towards returning to become a starter in the NFL, Dan Wetzel wrote this very interesting and quite touching column on following up on the dogs at Bad Newz Kennels.

Excerpt from the column:

The success stories will prove a winner for any dog lover. Consider Hector, a big, brown pit bull whose scarred chest and legs told of a veteran (and thereby successful and vicious) fighter. If there was ever a dog that at first glance would be considered too far gone to save, he was it.

Instead, the shelter found a pleasant demeanor and even a mischievous side (he loves hide-and-seek and is a klutz). He quickly passed his Canine Good Citizen tests and wound up in the Minnesota home of Roo Yori, who is known for training police dogs and flying-disc champions.

Hector now visits schools and nursing homes, offering comfort and entertainment and using his celebrity status as one of “Michael Vick’s dogs” to pound home an anti-fighting message.

Hector didn’t score any touchdowns Sunday. Yet, like Michael Vick, his life has moved forward in ways which few could’ve envisioned three and a half-year ago. Vick is back to being a football player, Hector a normal dog.

There's something often very interesting about the law of unintended consequences - would the world have been a better place if Bad Newz Kennels had never happened? Wetzel's column suggests, perhaps surprisingly, that even taking into account all of the dogs hurt by Michael Vick's actions, the sum of the parts might suggest that there was a surprising amount of good that came out of all of this.