"That's real big support," he said Thursday. "And support for us is everything."
Eric, a 6-foot-tall, 230-pound dude with a Rottweiler named Marley, three miniature pinschers, Axel, Diesel and Kash, and Chloe, a Chihuahua, said Baltimore's effort shows how much some in the city care about animals.
"Our main goal with this show is to bring awareness to people," said the man whose muscled right bicep is inked with a snarling Rottie. "You can still be a tough guy and a badass, but you can do the right things."
Both agreed that the group would like to come back to Baltimore - they were here briefly during the Phoenix case - but it largely depends on the group being able to get money to pay for it. The group is a nonprofit that relies largely on donations.
They said they could see doing a rally of some sort, hopefully to reach young people to, as Johnny O put it, "stop it at the beginning rather than the end."
"If we get funding to do things, we're down there," Johnny O said.
"If everyone don't take crap, like we don't, that will solve it," Eric added.
On TV
"Rescue Ink" airs at 10 tonight on National Geographic Channel.
