Who’d a thunk, by not being a good citizen and picking up their doggie’s doo-doo, someone actually helped catch another law-breaker?
18-year-old North Carolina man crashed his car into a yard and stepped on dog poop on his way out. Sgt. Dale Gunter found a white van driving toward him after searching and following the dog poop trail. When Gunter asked the man to get out of the vehicle, he smelled alcohol and saw the dog poop all over his shoes. He was charged with driving while impaired and driving under age. He was released on $1,500 bail. See MSNBC.com
Twenty-two of Michael Vick’s dogs, all bred to fight, will soon be learning how not to at Best Friends Animal Society’s sanctuary in southern Utah.
Elsewhere in the news, I see the “former fighting” dogs that were seized from Michael Vicks (the football player fellow) property have gone on to various rescue organizations for rehabilitation. Oh me of little faith. I pray none of them ends up re-homed anywhere in my immediate area. While people who adopt “former fighting dogs” promise they will keep them on leash, not go into dog parks, not acquire other pets, to safely manage the rehabilitated dogs for their lives, I’ve seen way too many people start out with good intentions and end up getting lazy. And that’s when someone gets hurt. An innocent passing dog, a family cat, or worse. I fully believe with all my heart, the dogs in the Vicks case were not to blame, were not the criminals, and, it is a tragedy that in these instances it is always the dogs who pay.
But I don’t believe in fully reliable rehabilitation of such dogs. Again, not the dogs’ fault at all, but, people are, after all, only human and make mistakes and let their guard down, and, I believe such dogs require a life time of careful and constant management and owner control. (Edit: In reading this I came to realize, it is the people I feel cannot be relied upon to keep up with the rehabilitation management needed for fighting dogs.)
The story is here Baltimoresun.com
The other rescue groups are and Recycled Love in Baltimore (three dogs); BAD RAP, Oakland, Calif. (10 dogs); Richmond Animal League, Richmond, Va., (4 dogs); Georgia S.P.C.A., Suwanee, Ga..; (3 dogs); SPCA of Monterey County, Calif.; (3 dogs); Animal Rescue of Tidewater, Chesapeake, Va..; (1 dog); and Our Pack, Inc. (1 dog).
Nothing about dog fighting is right or humane. Read the following article, if you have the strength: Dog Fighting, White Plains, New York
