The One About The Second Day Of Blogmas: The One About Why PETA, And Michael Vick Are Both Synonyms For Suck.

December 22, 2009 by Toriach

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Welcome back to The One About...'s Twelve Days Of Blogmas. Today's post comes from February 18th of 2009.

I was still trying to find my voice, and I was still trying out multi media posts, like one I did for Valentine's Day about my favorite romantic movie moments. At the same time I was getting my feet under me, with regards to taking things I found both offline and online and using them to build articles.

In the following article I write for the first, but sadly not the last about two of my biggest non political nemesis. PETA, and Michael Vick. I had come across a Sports Illustrated article talking about how many of Vick's former canine victims had not only survived, but were now in loving homes. The article also detailed the fact that PETA, amongst others had insisted and still insisted that the dogs should be destroyed. This pissed me off no end. To me it's like coming from an abusive home and winding up a Harvard graduate, and being told you shout be shot in the head because you still might turn violent.

This was also my first use of the phrase "Well it's angry hour once again at the One About..." which is my way of saying that I'm good and pissed.

As with yesterday's post it has been cleaned up a bit, I've added a lead picture and some new links, but if you want to see the original post you can click here.

It's angry hour again, here at The One About... Frankly, there is precious little that infuriates me the way the actions of a certain suspended football player by the name of Michael Vick do. But pulling dead even are the actions of the radical bunch of numb nuts known as PETA.

When the news of Vick's dog fighting crimes came to light, I'll admit that like a lot of people, I assumed that most, if not all of the dogs would have to be euthanized. But you know, I'm just a guy with no training in dog training, and so are most of the people who held this opinion. I figure it's forgivable. But PETA and The Humane Society held the same opinion. So it might be asked was there anyone who had the courage and care to actually check out the dogs and see what their state was? Thanks to a wonderfully in depth article by Jim Gorant for Sports Illustrated titled, Happy New Year, I've discovered the answer is yes. The ASPCA and a group known as BAD RAP (acronym for Bay Area Doglovers Responsible About Pit Bulls) an animal welfare and rescue group based in Oakland California, devoted to caring for and improving the public image of pit bull terriers as pets were two of the most prominent ones involved in a massive rescue and rehabilitation effort.

It was thanks to the actions of these groups that these dogs were given a fair evaluation, and put with people who could aid in their rehabilitation.

The result has been that some of the dogs are doing therapy work, some are living with people who have had troubled pit bulls before, and some might even some day be able to be part of the greater society of dog lovers.

But even if all of the dogs have to spend the rest of their lives with people who are more knowledgeable than most in dealing with dogs from traumatizing backgrounds, they still will be alive, safe, and loved.

So out of fifty one dogs how many are still alive? 47. Yes an amazing forty seven dogs. Of the four that did not survive, two died of "natural causes", one was euthanized for medical reasons and only one had to be put down because of aggression issues. Let me say that again. Only ONE dog out of FIFTY ONE, abused and terrorized animals had to be put down for reasons of aggression. PETA's response to this amazing bit of good news? "Some [of the dogs] will end up with something resembling a normal life," PETA spokesman Dan Shannon says, "but the chances are very slim, and it's not a good risk to take."

This makes me wonder, exactly who is PETA most concerned about? The dogs? The people caring for the dogs? Or their own reputation since they have already been proven wrong in such a public way?

I have my own opinions as to the answer to that.

And if only the story stopped there with a happy ending.

But sadly, Vick is due to get out of jail soon, and is trying to set himself up with PETA to do anti dog fighting PSA's as part of his sentence. PETA is insisting that they will only accept this if he will submit to testing to determine if he has truly changed and realized the wrongness of his actions.

This is great. For PETA. They get to continue to behave like the shameless publicity whores they are, while not having to spend a dime, or do a lick of work to actually help the victims of Vick's actions. Best of all by going, and staying negative, if any of the former fighting dogs should gods forbid injure someone, either accidentally or deliberately, they have covered their ass and get to smugly say, "I told you so," to all those poor dumb bastards who cared more about the dogs than about their public image.

So we have two serious contenders for SUCK of the year in Vick and PETA, and if history is any indication, in a few months we'll have a few more as NFL teams will probably fall all over each other in their attempt to sign Vick. After all there's no such thing as bad publicity. Right?

Not long after this I set up a Google Alert that I have in effect to this day that still brings me news about Vick. As a result I've written several more articles about this sad waste of skin. Basically I've made it my mission to speak out as a reminder of the full horror of his crimes, while some line up to pat his back for playing a fucking game. PETA on the other hand, while I still think are a bunch of whack jobs, seem to have gotten the message and have backed off at least a little bit from some of their more extreme rhetoric. Although I don't expect that to last for long.

Well check back tomorrow to read about how I'm single handedly destroying newspapers.

Keep The Faith My Brothers And Sisters!

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