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Originally Posted by J pold
Wow reading some of the replies in this thread have left me truly speechless.
I’m already someone who does not understand people and their irrationally when it comes to dogs. Yesterday I read the “I Lost My Best Friend” thread and was shocked at how broke up the OP was losing over his dog. I mean it’s a freaking dog, not a human being. Now not unsurprisingly I’ve never owned a dog which I don’t doubt is at the root of my genuine bafflement of the general human dog relationship, but this thread has taken it to another level.
ANYONE suggesting that this dog should be anywhere but in the ground really needs to look at their priorities. This thing KILLED a human infant, the roots behind its actions do not matter at all. If suppose a very mentally deranged person who was incapable of understanding their actions killed a child would it be morally right to put them back in an environment where they are in a position to commit the same action again? Compound this with the long list of other much more deserving dogs who are in shelters right now and this whole debate becomes an total farce.
The fact this thing is still alive sickens me. The fact that people actually want it to be is mind numbing.
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Generally, cruel dogs are created by cruel humans.
Many of Micheal Vick's dogs, bred and trained for killing, have been rehabilitated and a portion of those are living with families.
What people are having trouble with in this instance is this seems to have been an instinctual accident - where a human was present in the room by the way - versus a cruel act.
In our society, we've somehow gotten it into our heads that there is no value in putting to death human's guilty of the most profound acts of deliberate cruelty to other humans . . . . yet we'll devalue the life of this dog for what is essentially an accident of instinct . . . . where the dog was placed in that situation by the human responsible.
While I'm suspicious of the sled-dogging background in this household, this does not appear to be a dog trained to cruelty by a human.
I once had the mortifying experience of watching my two Golden Retrievers catch a gopher and, before I could do anything about it, they ripped its sorry, screaming ass in half right in front of me while using it for tug of war. Extreme, deliberate cruelty but also instinctual in that case. They were, in fact, in their 12 years of life on the prairie, expert, instinctual killers but gentle with humans.
The fact the owners haven't been ordered by authorities to terminate the dog, the normal course of events, is probably very telling . . . . it suggests they do not believe the dog is a future danger and that this incident was an accident.
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated" - Gandhi
I guess we'll see how great we are.
Cowperson