The MVKD site is my own — there is no activist group or ulterior motive behind the site. It is simply a “.info” site, one that compiles headlines and links to newsworthy items related to the Michael Vick case. I wrote the editorial regarding PETA and did my research before publishing the commentary. I checked the records which the petakillsanimals.com cited as their source of data on PETA’s euthanasia rates and found them to be accurate. I also double checked to make sure there were additional credible sources which also reported these facts before publishing my opinion piece.

The only objective my MVKD site aspires to achieve is to heighten awareness of the abuses and cruelty suffered by pits through blood “sports” such as dogfighting. In addition, I wanted to create a site that would serve as an information portal for the Vick case, much as I attempted to do with the pet food recall earlier in the year; similarly, I’ve tried to advocate for the pit bull through sites like my www.cafepress.com/howlywood site and via my annual “Good Dogs” anti-BSL calendar which features ambassadors of breeds targeted by BSL and public discrimination (http://www.cafepress.com/howlywood/1224579).

Glad you appreciated my comments.

In my not so humble opinion, Michael Vick’s legal team, public relations gurus, opportunistic animal rights groups, spiritual advisers, supportive community leaders and politicians, former coaches and teammates, and Vick — Ookie the Dogfighter — himself, can all just shut the heck up for now.

I will not believe, nor do I want to hear/read another d@#ned word about Michael Vick’s sorrow, regret, and redemption — until he’s spent at least a year in a federal prison (and I don’t mean a work camp, a drug treatment center, house arrest, or half-way finishing up paying his debt to society in a half-way house). Nobody needs to be thinking or TALKING about Vick’s “PSAs for Animals” until at least *January 2009*, when he’s released from a medium security federal prison and put on supervised probation.

Michael Vick, take your punishment like a man. Pay your debt to civilized society for the laws you’ve broken, and perform your penance BEHIND BARS for the scores of dogs you helped mistreat, torture, and kill. With the acceptance of your hopefully harsh sentence, WALK THE WALK to correct the horrible, dead-end example you’ve set for children and adolescents in neighborhoods like the one you grew up in. Try to lead by example kids who aspire NOT to follow in the footsteps of Michael Vick the NFL quarterback, but who don’t even know there is more out there for them than the drugs, violence, blood, death and ghetto/backwoods glory of Ookie the Dogfighter.

Hm. Maybe I should put this another way…

You’re from “game bred” stock - right, Michael Vick? Tenacious? Athletic? Exceptional drive? Proud? Powerful? Then shut your lawyers and your PR team and preachers and all your “handlers” up and simply take your punishment. You’ve been acting like a cowering little bait dog trying to hide behind the educated “grand champions” you’ve invited into your pen to protect you. Stop your whining. You get what you deserve. (Isn’t that the way it’s *supposed* to go down, Ookie?)

[Sorry for the rant, my Itchmos! I just… I can only take so much. Hopefully, somebody in Vick’s camp keeps up with what folks are saying about the situation, and I just had to, finally, let it fly.]

Today I saw not one, but two, male people “walking” pit bulls on leashes, basically pulling them and semi-dragging them along, yanking the leashes (a rope, in one case) when the dog so much as looked in another direction. I know they treat them this way for a reason. They treat them this way to “make them mean.” I don’t understand why there aren’t cops driving up to these people and taking their pets away from them before it’s too late.

Stefani

On the one hand, this is exactly the kind of thing I have been saying Vick should do. However, he needs to personally FINANCE a national campaign against dog fighting, not merely appear in a spot paid for by someone else.

Also, I have been enlightened by people on this list about PETA’s position on breed specific legislation, which I oppose. Demonization of the pit bull is not right, and is not the answer. Criminals and perpetrators of cruelty, and those who would exploit the strength of large breed dogs with strong jaws will simply move on to another suitable breed — Rotties, for example. There are plenty of breeds with similar physical characteristis that they can begin breeding for aggression, using, misusing, and abusing to “make them mean.” It’s not the breed, its the purposes it’s been hijacked for, and the thugs will just move on to another suitable breed. It’s the PEOPLE.

So, again, I have mixed feelings. Yes, he should be publicly enunciating how awful what he did is. Yes, he should be explaining to kids that this is WRONG and that they should not look to him as a role model in this respect, but instead, should report cruelty and dog fighting. This is exactly appropriate for him to do, and is the only thing that would have any chance of earning an ounce of forgiveness from me. (Not forgiveness, but . . . I would stop railing against him.)

However, it needs to be something he sincerely wants to do, to the extent that he uses his OWN money to finance it. THEN and ONLY THEN, will I believe that maybe, just maybe, he has learned something from this and is attempting to do pennance.

Stefani
The Toonces Project
http://www.TheTooncesProject.com
“Is Your Pet Safe at the Vet?”

From courttv.com: Critics have charged that many of the group’s loyal supporters will be shocked when details of PETA’s euthanasia policy emerge. The Virginian-Pilot reported that the group euthanized more than 6,000 animals between 2001 and 2003, about 83 percent of those it collected.” (link http://www.courttv.com/news/20.....tml?page=1)

And the fact that PETA supports BSL against pit bulls and advocates for the breed’s extermination is also indisputable. Link: http://www.badrap.org/rescue/petaa.cfm

As the MVKD’s editorial states, PETA is no friend to pit bulls and their hypocrisy in this case is glaring.

Being a person who trusts my instincts………and who trusts my knowledge of psychosocio behavior, I’m very comfortable with nixing any public service announcement by him.

Thank you for posting those sites. It is really hard to take a group seriously who says obesity doesn’t cause diabetes.

So, who should we believe?

My fav artice on there from a quick glance: one that tells NYer’s “fried food isn’t that bad for you….” LOL. You really can’t take anything these people say seriously. Fortunately, they quickly list their “other” websites (such as petakillsanimals.com) in a small section on the left nav bar for quick perusal. ;-)

I’m not a fan of PETA (I respect some of what they have done and hate other things they have done) BUT my big pet peeve is misinformation (which is why I don’t like PETA either.) Don’t get me wrong, I eat meat, but the org that constantly puts out fake websites against PETA and other groups actually does it because they HATE that animal welfare groups make them do things more humanely. I would look up the exact info right now, but my computer is acting buggy and I’m about to have to reboot. So Google and look in wikipedia if you want more info.
–Kristy