Thursday, September 6, 2007

What Frustrates Me About Mike Vick

Ok so I don't care about dog fighting. Not even a little bit. In fact if anything I"m pro-dog fighting. This may sound odd especially because I have owned dogs my whole life, and I would never want any of them to be involved in dog fighting. Sure it's somewhat gross, and the animals are mistreated. This happens to lots of dogs. Have you ever been to a dog shelter? Those places are shit holes filled with dogs people bought, and then cruelly abandoned. They torture these dogs by leaving them in cages in a room full of dogs. A higher stress dog environment almost couldn't exist. How about racing dogs? they have a useful track life of about 2 years. The very cream of the crop (maybe a percent, but I have no proof of this) are bred. The rest are usually sold to places that do medical experiments on them until they die. Culturally, we don't value the lives of dogs very highly. Nor should we they are animals just like cows (though cuter and less delicious). Onto Mike Vick. So the dude fought dogs? He didn't molest children. He didn't get caught with an illegal firearm. He just made one animal fight another animal. So what. We kill lots of animals every day. Just look at your shoes. Animals are all over those bitches. Somehow because many of us have owned dogs this guy gets crucified. His going to jail is a joke. He owned those dogs, the property he fought them on, and he harmed no person with his actions. Leonard Little a defensive player with the rams killed a bitch while driving drunk. He never missed a season. After killing the bitch he then got another dui. Still no suspension, or even sizable jail sentence. Yet somehow Mike Vick gets black listed by the NFL, and a hefty jail sentence? Oh did I mention that the dogs they took from Mike Vick are all being put down? they are.

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