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Tia Maria Torres grew up in Southern California and coming from a broken home experienced a tumultuous childhood. Early on, she longed for a family of her own, and eventually she began to adopt neighboring dogs and stray cats into her fold. As a result of her own life's twists and turns, along with a passion for saving pit bulls, Tia came to build the Villalobos Rescue Center, now the largest pit bull rescue facility in the country. In 2006, with the help of her family, Tia Torres built a program called "The Underdawgz," which serves as an entity within the Villalobos Rescue Center. The Underdawgz pairs parolees and pit bulls — both men and dogs nobody else wants. The parolees feed the dogs, clean the kennels and learn how to train the pit bulls in preparation for adoption. Running the rescue is demanding and emotionally taxing on the family. Each day is a battle, but Tia finds conviction in her mission to turn society's trash into treasure and by the dogs who work their magic on the "baddest" good guys in town.

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