April 8 is National Dog Fighting Awareness Day, and while the practice is illegal in every state, tens of thousands of people still do it.

The victim was a man in his 60s.

LMAS officials said in a news release that the 3-year-old male pit bull, who has been named Koal, is "not out of the woods" yet, however.

Surveillance footage captured a person tying the 3-year-old male pit bull to a gate outside Louisville Metro Animal Services' Newburg Road shelter around 5 a.m. Jan. 26. 

The person left the dog, a 3-year-old pit bull, outside LMAS' shelter on Newburg Road around 5 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 26. 

A woman who was hospitalized after an assault said one of her attackers allowed his pit bull to maul her.