Boycott Barnes & Noble! Puppy Killer Michael Vick Scheduled For Multiple In Store Book Signings
So Michael Vick wrote a book about his "redemption" and how awesome of a guy he is now that he is rehabilitated after killing a bunch of innocent dogs. I wish so many things for this man. None of them are good.
Many of you know from Facebook that Confed and I do a lot with dog rescue. We always have at least one (usually 2-3) foster dogs, in addition to our own 2. I train, I evaluate, I transport and I pull dogs from shelters for the rescues we work with to go to other foster homes. We get foster dogs who have been abused and mistreated and starved. Dobermans who should weigh 85 pounds and come in weighing just 40 or 45.
Rob's dog, Mazy (assumed to be a White Boxer/Pit Bull mix) was a foster dog of ours who had been chained in a basement her whole life until she was kicked out of her home and taken to the vet to be put down by some family of the people who had her. Luckily, the vet they used is also a vet that the rescue we foster for uses and he convinced them to turn Mazy over to him so he could put her in our rescue. She did not like other dogs, and was not real certain with kids. She was only supposed to be here for a few days. Her and my Shepherd, Mandalay, got into a little scuffle and that was that. Mazy was transformed. Her and Dharma became best friends. Mandalay is her second BFF. :) She is now the welcome wagon for all our other fosters. She is a great dog, if you are into happy-go-lucky dogs who love everyone. I have been working with her to get her to stop loving people quite so much (she is a licker, yuck) and I am working toward having her as a Doggone Safe dog. (Doggone Safe is a program that teaches bite prevention to children, and teaches them how to interact with dogs properly, as well as what to do if they are approached by an unfriendly dog to minimize the risk of being bitten or attacked).
Where I am going with this is that we get to see the ugly side of this stuff. We get to see the dogs who are dumped at shelters after they get old because the family doesn't want them anymore. The dogs who no one spends time training and then are surprised when the dog eats a pair of $200 shoes. The dogs who are abused and tied up in basements and then thrown away. Our current foster dog has a 2" split in his ear from an incident in his previous home. I have no forgiveness for this. None. I have zero tolerance for anyone hurting kids or dogs. There is no excuse good enough, no apology written well enough, and no amount of rehabilitation can make me think that anyone who could do what Michael Vick did is worthy of life.
There is a very special place in hell for him.
So Michael Vick wrote a book about his "redemption" and how awesome of a guy he is now that he is rehabilitated after killing a bunch of innocent dogs. I wish so many things for this man. None of them are good.
Many of you know from Facebook that Confed and I do a lot with dog rescue. We always have at least one (usually 2-3) foster dogs, in addition to our own 2. I train, I evaluate, I transport and I pull dogs from shelters for the rescues we work with to go to other foster homes. We get foster dogs who have been abused and mistreated and starved. Dobermans who should weigh 85 pounds and come in weighing just 40 or 45.
Rob's dog, Mazy (assumed to be a White Boxer/Pit Bull mix) was a foster dog of ours who had been chained in a basement her whole life until she was kicked out of her home and taken to the vet to be put down by some family of the people who had her. Luckily, the vet they used is also a vet that the rescue we foster for uses and he convinced them to turn Mazy over to him so he could put her in our rescue. She did not like other dogs, and was not real certain with kids. She was only supposed to be here for a few days. Her and my Shepherd, Mandalay, got into a little scuffle and that was that. Mazy was transformed. Her and Dharma became best friends. Mandalay is her second BFF. :) She is now the welcome wagon for all our other fosters. She is a great dog, if you are into happy-go-lucky dogs who love everyone. I have been working with her to get her to stop loving people quite so much (she is a licker, yuck) and I am working toward having her as a Doggone Safe dog. (Doggone Safe is a program that teaches bite prevention to children, and teaches them how to interact with dogs properly, as well as what to do if they are approached by an unfriendly dog to minimize the risk of being bitten or attacked).
Where I am going with this is that we get to see the ugly side of this stuff. We get to see the dogs who are dumped at shelters after they get old because the family doesn't want them anymore. The dogs who no one spends time training and then are surprised when the dog eats a pair of $200 shoes. The dogs who are abused and tied up in basements and then thrown away. Our current foster dog has a 2" split in his ear from an incident in his previous home. I have no forgiveness for this. None. I have zero tolerance for anyone hurting kids or dogs. There is no excuse good enough, no apology written well enough, and no amount of rehabilitation can make me think that anyone who could do what Michael Vick did is worthy of life.
There is a very special place in hell for him.
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