Alf lazily lounged on Jemi Hodge's lap on a couch at the Richmond Animal League Friday.

The white and brown-colored pit bull propped half of his body on her thigh and stretched his short back legs toward Gracie, a black mix sprawled next to him.

After a few minutes, Alf decides he wants to kiss Gracie and begins to lick her short snout. Gracie eagerly returns the favor.

"He's a lover, not a fighter," Sharon Cornett said of Alf.

"And she's a couch potato," Susan Kelly said of Gracie.

Alf and Gracie are just two of the dogs rescued from Michael's Vick's Bad Newz Kennels in Newport News. The Richmond Animal League offered to take any of the dogs the federal government seized from his property; the group received four dogs in December.

The organization, along with seven others across the country, was finally able to talk about the dogs Friday after the last co-defendant, Oscar Allen, was sentenced. A federal judge sentenced Allen, who admitted to giving the former Atlanta Falcons football player a female pit bull and instructed Vick and his co-defendants how to pair dogs in fights, to three years of probation and a $500 fine.

Allen, 67, of Williamsburg, pleaded guilty in October to conspiracy to travel in interstate commerce to aid in illegal gambling and to sponsor a dog in animal fighting, the same charge to which Vick and three co-defendants pleaded guilty.

But prosecutors said he did not help kill six to eight dogs that did not perform well. He also cooperated with prosecutors against Vick, Purnell Peace of Virginia Beach, Quanis Phillips of Atlanta and Tony Taylor of Hampton.

Peace was sentenced to 18 months; Phillips to 21 months; and Taylor to two months. Vick received the longest sentence at 23 months. He was being housed as a federal prison Virginia, but was transferred earlier this month to a Leavenworth, Kansas, facility to enter a drug treatment program.

Forty-eight dogs were seized from Vick's property and only one was euthanized. The Best Friends Animal Society, an animal sanctuary in Utah, said Friday that of the 47 surviving dogs, 25 were classified as sanctuary dogs. Best Friends received 21 of those. The 22nd dog that Best Friends received was assessed as being highly adoptable.

Cornett, a member of the Board of Directors for the Richmond Animal League, said Friday the four dogs they received were not fighters and have not shown an aggression.

In general, Cornett said, fighting dogs aren't people-aggressive because their handlers are often in the small fighting pits with them and don't want their dogs attacking them.