Vick wants a pet, just too funny

[Aso]

Vick shouldn't have a dog, ever. Period, end of story.

[JOHNNYTHECLOWN]

I knew it! I knew ONE DAY there would the animal cruelty topic would rise again!


PUSSIES!

mfers don't care bout human suffering but give it fur and little puppy dog eyes and you guys turn into a bunch of vaginas


give the damn dude a dog if he wants one

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Agreed. Child molesters and drunken drivers are typically habitual offenders that are have issues mentally in someway shape or form and the issues that are psychological are in many ways incruable.

Which Vick obviously had a drastic moral compass issue with the dog fighting issue IMO it has a different causation than what typically leads to drunken driving and child molestation.

Kids who kill and torture animals are a puddle jump away from being the guy that shoots up a school or kills their girlfriend because she suddenly realized this is one creepy dude and is leaving him.

Adults that kill and torture animals aren't too far off from doing something much more serious. Kind of like the creepy single fuck down the street with a folder on his hard drive called "Game Files" which is actually his secret kiddie porn stash (dave?).

That isn't to say that I think Vick is in that same hemisphere as a kiddie toucher...but lets not make it seem like killing and torturing animals merely needs a recalibration of ones moral compass. It is typically a strong indicator of something much more volatile brewing. Those that surround the dog fighting rings are of the socially non-responsive and the range of outcomes from these types can be all over the map.

With all that said...Vick will, one day, get a dog. If for anything, a PR move along with the ASPCA to show some sort of "total rehabilitation"...some pseudo bullshit, really.

[shag773]

I had my doubts about Michael Vick until the good folks at Woodbury Nissan in Woodbury, NJ made him their official spokesman.....

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Video-Michael-Vick-s-first-post-prison-televisi?urn=nfl-296862

Next stop, shilling for check cashing stores and cashforgold.com...

[jms493]

Vick should just realize that himself owning a dog any time soon is just out of the question. Keep laying low Mike don't anything stupid.

[FirstTimer]

I buy this if you are talking about illegal car racing were no one is intentionally hurt/killed. There is no real malice here. Maybe some risk of injury/death or some illegal gambling, but no real malice. You are talking about a WHOLE NEW BALL GAME when you are talking about TORTURE.

But the thing is they don't view it as torture. They view it as a neccessary part of training the dog to fight.

That isn't to say that I think Vick is in that same hemisphere as a kiddie toucher...but lets not make it seem like killing and torturing animals merely needs a recalibration of ones moral compass. .

I think in some instances, such as Vick's it may be. It's not always this simple. And it might not be even a majority of the time but in this case it may be.

[NAHSTE]

Yay, another Vick debate. Count me in the ralaw camp. Vick's actions led to the suffering of many dogs, but I think he is capable of owning a dog without randomly having an impulse to electrocute it one day.

Vick ran a criminal enterprise, which as a byproduct, hurt dogs... Doesn't mean Vick is a dog-hating sociopath. He was running a dog fighting ring ... He wasn't a fucking dog serial killer who was stalking the streets looking for prey.

[bucky]

Vick ran a criminal enterprise, which as a byproduct, hurt dogs...

He did much more than just hurt dogs.

Doesn't mean Vick is a dog-hating sociopath. He was running a dog fighting ring ... He wasn't a fucking dog serial killer who was stalking the streets looking for prey.

No he was drowning, electrocuting, shooting, beating dogs to death. Some how you don't see that as sociopathic? And most dog fighters do stalk the streets looking for prey, and use/torture those dogs in the ring for training purposes.

That's sick, psychopathic behavior.

[Bear Pand]

Ban him from owning pit bulls or any other dogs that are used in dog fighting. If he wants to own like a poodle what's the big deal?

[bucky]

But the thing is they don't view it as torture. They view it as a necessary part of training the dog to fight.

If you don't view Drowning, Electrocuting, Shooting and Beating to death as torture, then you have some very serious issues that goes well beyond a moral compass hiccup.

I think in some instances, such as Vick's it may be. It's not always this simple. And it might not be even a majority of the time but in this case it may be.

And what makes you think this with Vick's case? What indications or research do you have? That he has already done it, is a pretty strong indication that he could do it again.

[bucky]

Ban him from owning pit bulls or any other dogs that are used in dog fighting. If he wants to own like a poodle what's the big deal?

I thought the same thing when I read the article title. "Just give him a little Taco Bell Dog"

[NAHSTE]

He did much more than just hurt dogs.



No he was drowning, electrocuting, shooting, beating dogs to death. Some how you don't see that as sociopathic? And most dog fighters do stalk the streets looking for prey, and use/torture those dogs in the ring for training purposes.

That's sick, psychopathic behavior.

LOL at you thinking Vick was getting his hands dirty like this. He was the money behind the ring, bankroll. Show me proof that he killed any dogs himself, with his bare hands, before I'm going to make that leap. At the risk of using a poor analogy, are mob bosses any less of a father to their children because they hire hitmen to kill other people's children?

His henchmen were doing that shit, not him. Doesn't excuse his complicity, but I also don't think it automatically means he is incapable of being a good dog owner today.

[bucky]

LOL at you thinking Vick was getting his hands dirty like this. He was the money behind the ring, bankroll. Show me proof that he killed any dogs himself, with his bare hands, before I'm going to make that leap.

LOL at you not doing any research. No leap. He said it himself. Along with other witnesses saying he did. But you go and pretend it didn't happen. Try doing a Google search or two. I read articles and his confession that was online while this all went down. Don't feel like digging it up again. It's pretty much common knowledge now. Where were you when this was all in the news? He was more than just the bank roll.

[NAHSTE]

LOL at you not doing any research. No leap. He said it himself. Along with other witnesses saying he did. But you go and pretend it didn't happen. Try doing a Google search or two. I read articles and his confession that was online while this all went down. Don't feel like digging it up again. It's pretty much common knowledge now. Where were you when this was all in the news? He was more than just the bank roll.

Weeping into my pillow at my parents' house with two Vick posters hanging above me. After hearing about it every day for 10 hours a day I insulated myself from the story at some point, because you could not escape it anywhere you turned if you lived in Atlanta.

I was in pure Mr. Bill denial mode at that point.

[bucky]

if you lived in Atlanta.

I am SO, SO, SORRY dude, I didn't know you were from Atlanta.