Reply #34: Let's see here, [View All]

[MadHound]

We have a man who, by all accounts, enjoyed pitting innocent dogs against each other in order to fight to the death for his own pleasure. We have a man who took dogs that didn't perform up to his standards, who didn't gratify his needs, and proceeded to drown, electrocute, beat and torture these innocent animals until they died. It doesn't get much more obvious than that that this man is a sociopath.

I don't know what was ordered for Vick's "rehab". I do know that he wasn't ordered into therapy. I know that he had some of the more serious charges, such as gambling, dropped. All in all, Vick got off much easier than an person who wasn't a celebrity would have experienced. And it is because of his status as a celebrity football player that has allowed him to "change his way" and become "rehabilitated" after he got out of prison. If he couldn't scramble and toss a football sixty yards accurately on the fly, he would be working some low end, low wage job if he was working at all. Most employers despise animal abusers, but since he is a "star", that apparently doesn't matter to Eagles or the NFL. He brings in money for them, so all is forgiven. Vick's treatment and repercussions from his crime have been very mild, as they usually are for big name sports stars.

But none of that means that they man has changed. He is still an untreated sociopath, and all of this renewed adulation simply proves to him that, at least for now, he is bulletproof. Handing another dog over to this man would be a crime, and also a crime waiting to happen. PETA and others who find the notion of Vick getting another dog outrageous are correct, and until Vick gets the treatment he needs, he shouldn't be allowed around any animal at all. Hell, I even fear for his kids.