Alan Hood

I know that a lot of people are going to be upset by this however I am going to say it anyway.  And PETA you can go pee up a rope for all I care so keep your comment to yourself.  Michael Vick was wrong to participate in gambling and the brutal way that he participated in the killing of those dogs was inexcusable.  Pit bulls who are bred to fight and do not perform need to be killed.  No if ands or buts about it.  These dogs will never make good pets for anyone and are a potentially deadly hazard to anyone they come into contact with, so they needed to be put down.  Again the way it was handled was wrong, but the act itself was not the wrong thing to do.

We are a society that uses animals for our own entertainment on a continual basis, and fighting dogs is really not any worse than a rodeo, greyhound park, or horse race.  If you think I am wrong then you obviously have no clue as to the way the animals at any of those venues are treated.  Most likely you do know but you choose to turn a blind eye and continue to place your bets. 

Cock fighting is illegal but it’s okay to buy veal.  WTF you have got to be kidding me, it’s okay to practically starve a calf to death then slaughter it when it is only 1 year old or younger but you can’t let chickens fight.  This country we live in is absurd.  Torturing cows is just fine because some people like to eat fresh young tender calf meat, which by the way is laden with antibiotics and steroids, but I cant let a couple of dumb ass chickens fight to the death and eat the loser?  I have a hard time understanding the logic of the people who decided that one is okay but the other is wrong.  Wait maybe the cattle industry has better lobbyists than the cock fighters do, so they are able to come up with more bribe money, err I mean campaign contributions, making their cruelty okay. 

I love my dogs and if anybody tried to kick one of them I wouldn’t think twice about filling them full of birdshot.  My dogs were not bred for fighting, and dogs that are, have no place in this country.  If you want to stop people from fighting dogs then you need to outlaw all of the dog breeds that are raised for that purpose.  Don’t make Michael Vick out to be some kind of demon when he is only doing what other people do in this country legally every day.  I am sure that some incredibly brilliant person is going to say that the cleanup has to start somewhere and it might as well be with him, but you are wrong.  The cleanup needs to start with the industries that as of right now are legal in this country, like dog racing, horse racing, and rodeo.  Or better yet realize that chickens and pitbulls are really just the same animal as greyhounds, bulls, and horses, and the cruelty of fighting them is no worse than the cruelty that we overlook every day of our lives.