Michael Vick is apparently going to prison for dog fighting. Well, abusing animals, betting on dog fights and crossing state lines in the pursuit of dog fighting mostly. Don’t get me wrong. I’m a dog guy. In fact, I’m trying to score a hound from the local humane society as I type in order to make it member of my family. But come on. Dog fighting is bringing this cat down? What kind of shit is that?
Here’s a story. When I lived in West Bumfuck, Louisiana I worked with this lady who used to tell me about how her husband treated their dogs. In sum, like shit. When he got tired of feeding a dog or otherwise keeping it alive he killed it. Bullet in the skull. She didn’t have a problem with it either. Neither did anyone I heard her tell tales about his treatment of dogs to. Me personally, I couldn’t treat dogs like that, but they weren’t my dogs. The dogs were his property and he treated them as he wished.
Anyway, this chick’s husband happened to be the sheriff of the parish (county) in which we lived. Killing dogs for no good reason forced no repercussion on him and for as back lick as that place is he’ll probably be sheriff for life. He might not have electrocuted his dogs or hanged them or slammed them against walls to kill them, but he killed perfectly healthy dogs for no reason other than he didn’t want to keep feeding them anymore or bother to look for other homes for them.
To me, the only difference between Vick and this sheriff is that Vick bet on dogs. They’re both animal abusers in my view, so what else could be different? And now you have a $100 million athlete getting made an example of — career ruined, ability to earn a living gone, HARD TIME for up to three years — because he bet that Marmaduke could whoop Snoopy’s ass.
Meanwhile, 200 people have been murdered in cold blood in Baltimore this year and many of those killers will never be found. And those that are — if they even get convicted — will probably serve less time than Vick. This is the country we live in. Dog fight bettors get the scarlet letter while people killers stalk cities at their own leisure.
God bless America.
Cry me a fucking river.
These are the same assholes that breed these pitbulls to be vicious attack animals. The same pitbulls that seem to make the papers on a weekly basis as they attack yet another victim (mainly kids). Speaking of which, here’s another story just today:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070822/D8R5QR1G1.html
And on from MD just a couple weeks ago:
http://wjz.com/pets/local_story_214181917.html
Just google ‘Domenic Solesky’ to get the details of another Towson pitbull attack back in April. I know this kids Dad through connections at work.
Did the ‘west bumfuck’ Sheriff train his dogs to kill?
These dogfighters need to burn. Just like the Baltimore murderers need to burn. Just because the Baltimore judicial system is incompetent doesn’t mean these other losers should just walk. (and I’m not buying that ‘200 murdered in cold blood’ line either. A large number of those ‘victims’ are drug dealers and gang bangers themselves).
I don’t care how they do it in the country… it is still wrong regardless. And just because they can’t find killers in Baltimore is no reason he should get off lighter. One has nothing to do with the other. I don’t think people who have pets can call them their ‘children’ but I don’t think you should have 88 dogs caged up in various degress of torture just to make money either. He’ll likely get 18 months and be done and I think that’s appropriate for his crime.
Yeah, sorry to say cheese, I almost completely agree with psycho Phil on this one.
Aitch: Why are you sorry? I don’t shun people for thinking differently than I do.
Although I should note how gracious I am for allowing dissenting opinion to remain on my site. And that above all else I’m a terrific person. That’s something everyone can agree on.
I’m sorry because I hate to agree with Phil.