It’s not long since high-profile American footballer Michael Vick was incarcerated on account of dog fights.
Pitting any animals to fight one another is barbaric. Over the centuries in Western society we have put a stop to bear-baiting, cock-fighting and other similar activities.
Dog fighting is proving hard to eradicate though, even in New Zealand:
… the SPCA and police issued a search warrant and raided a south Auckland house fearing it was the centre of a dog fighting ring.
A dog owner at the property was issued with a written warning for pitting his own dogs against each other. …”We do take it very seriously. It’s a blood sport, it’s barbaric and it’s totally unnecessary,” says [the SPCA's Jim Boyd]
But it is a secret blood sport, which hard to expose and generally kept alive by gangs.
[Via : Dog fighting on the increase in New Zealand | NATIONAL News.]
If these guys want to prove how ‘tough’ and ‘manly’ they are then they should set up a ring and fight one another directly. I don’t care if they batter one another to death — provided that as a taxpayer I don’t end up paying for health care for the survivors. They should be ‘tough’ enough to fight their own battles and not force dogs to do their fighting for them.
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