Mr. Knox mentions many motives for the "vigilante" pet napping by "do gooders" except for the real reasons these usually terrified women feel compelled to do something...

Dogs frozen to the ground by their own feces and urine clumped hair.
Dogs howling and crying night and day because they are being eaten alive by maggots,from the inside out.
Dogs having wire wrapped around their muzzles to "shut up" their desperate whimpering.Or being shut up in dark garages or sheds, or being beaten over and over with a 2 by 4.
Being starved to skeletons,urinated on, hit with beer bottles, buried alive. Eyes poked out,legs broken, tortured.
Or just the old Shep who you have watched chained to the same tree for 12 years. Waiting to die.

YES. We have formed a "personal opinion" about all this. As would any decent human. But the people who finally step in to help these pitiful creatures are not "vigilantes". They are more like cleaning ladies, mopping up the blood,because no one else will.