Updates: a beautiful message about forgiveness from Best Friends
http://blogs.bestfriends.org/index.php/2011/01/06/never-say-never-the-bigger-issues-regarding-vick/
according to CBS news, Vick is only banned from getting a dog until 2012…
good to see some media speak out against his getting a dog, although Jane does not get the full extent of his guilt… and at least some are asking people their opinions…
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/12/17/velez.mitchell.vick.dogs/index.html
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2010/12/michael-vick-wants-a-dog-as-a-pet.html
muzzle vick, http://www.sacbee.com/2010/12/18/3266846/leading-off-muzzle-vicks-notion.html
A group called HumaneWatchers (on facebook) is fronting for the people who kill seals, fur and agribusiness. They put a big ad in the NY Times on Sunday (see my blog post about Humanewatch exposed). What I don’t understand about the Humane Society, I have some emails from Wayne Pacelle, is that first they wanted to kill all of the dogs and now they say Vick is making progress. Remains to be seen by many.
It occurs to me why all the positive media spin on vick… it is because Jim Gorant’s book The Lost Dogs is getting a lot of publicity. Gorant is doing a lot of media. As the truth gets out there about the dogs that vick terrorized and killed with his own hands, vick’s PR goes into action… which is why it is sooooo important for pit bull / dog / animal lovers to speak out against his lies. Denial ain’t just a river, ya know.
So I apologize to Jim Gorant for giving this important pivotal paragraph away (at the end of this post) and apologize to all who read this post. I am squeamish and avoided reading the 2-3 paragraphs in the book that I knew would make me ill. The book itself is not graphic at all. It is amazing and honors the dogs. The book is all about the dogs and also outlines how they built the case against Vick. The paragraph makes you sad, angry and want to puke but I think it needs to be said … because some people want to believe that vick is somehow magically reformed because he is playing well on the field of football, a brutal sport, I might add.
BadRap helped rehab many of the dogs from the Bad Newz Kennels and when you read Gorant’s book, you will have a better idea how much courage, bravery, patience, love and I don’t even have the words that Donna Reynolds and the others from BadRap, Best Friends Animal Society and other rescues gave to these dogs who were so brutally traumatized by vick. I am haunted for life and so are these dogs, even though they have been loved, cared for and are doing well in their new homes.
You can buy the lost dogs book at Amazon…
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Time Magazine just named Michael Vick to the Top of Everything List and as Bad Rap categorized that for anyone to EVER consider giving vick a puppy, kudos and naming him on a top list of anything, is so appalling there are no words. Bad Rap categorized this in the have you been smokin crack category… they quoted the paragraph and had a link to an article in the Atlantic Journal Constitution about vick. You can send the AJC your opinion by clicking on the name of the writer of the article. Also tell the Humane Society what you think, ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh…
Please send Time magazine and the AJC a few choice words, perhaps copy and paste the paragraph about the little red dog to them, if enough people do that, maybe people will get it…
you can click on the name of the writer Alexandra Silver to send an email to Time magazine, you can also sign the petition from Change.org
Write to Michael Vick and tell him politely not to get a dog. Take action link: http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/AgaON/zKwR/Dz2M
A dog shouldn’t be adopted to someone with a history of animals abuse, just like a child shouldn’t be adopted to someone with a history of child abuse.
ok, here it is, say a prayer, a moment of silence, and cry for the lost little red dog…
From The Lost Dogs by Jim Gorant, senior editor of Sports Illustrated…..
“As that dog lay on the ground, fighting for air, Quanis Phillips grabbed its front legs and Michael Vick grabbed its back legs. They swung the dog over their head like a jump rope then slammed it to the ground. The first impact didn’t kill it. So, Phillips and Vick slammed it again. The two men kept at it, alternating back and forth, pounding the creature against the ground until, at last, the little red dog was dead.
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