KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The woman who paid $7,400 on eBay for 22
Michael Vick football cards, chewed up and slobbered on by two Missouri dogs, acknowledges she hadn't heard of the star football player before he was indicted for dogfighting.
But Laura Norton-Dye, 40, of Cape Girardeau, wanted to send the message that local animal shelters need help -- and she challenged Vick to donate money himself.
Norton-Dye, who outbid 30 others, lives in the town where the auction originated and has requested the money be donated to the Humane Society of Southeast Missouri and to Safe Harbor, a local animal sanctuary.
Norton-Dye, who has incurable gastrointestinal carcinoid cancer, said she has a big heart for animals. "I really think this was the right thing to do," said Norton, a former teacher. "This is one way I thought I could make a difference."
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