Friday, July 20, 2007

Vick's Dogfighting Scandal

I just read this ABC News article that dives into some of the particulars of dogfighting:

Inside, two severely abused dogs tear each other literally limb from limb in a life-or-death battle...

They are kept chained and locked in crowded cages, far away enough not to kill each other, but close enough to put them in a constant state of agitation...

The conditioning also includes steroid injections, and hours running on a treadmill or tied to the bumper of a moving car...

Since they rarely take the animals to the vet, breeders will staple the dogs wounds themselves, pump them with antibiotics, or leave them in a ditch to die...

The losing dog is often disposed of by electrocution, beating, or drowning...

Young child spectators can grow up insensitive to animal cruelty, enthusiastic about violence, and disrespectful of the law, reported the National Humane Society. Roach said a survey of Chicago middle schoolers showed that 38-40 percent of the third to sixth graders had witnessed a dogfight...

Obviously this is a highly emotional topic, but it's hard to muster even the slightest compassion for anyone who brings harm to defenseless creatures for the purpose of mere entertainment. The list of consequences that would seem too harsh for Vick and his goons is brief. At the very least, hopefully this incident will be sufficient to bring more national attention to the issue.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

38-40% have witnessed a dog fight? Bull shit. Maybe two dogs playing aggressively with each other, but no chance that percentage has been to one of the actual dog fights described in the article. What a phony statistic.

July 20, 2007 at 6:54 PM  
Blogger Cory Albertson said...

I also thought that stat sounded like BS. Before that fact dawned on me, it was probably too late to delete that quote from the blog. But seriously, if their study involved nothing other than asking 7 year olds "have you seen a dogfight?", of course you're going to have a much larger number of "yes's" than have actually witnessed a dogfight like that of those in question.

July 20, 2007 at 8:45 PM  

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