dogfighting
08/27/2007
Michael Vick's Press Conference
To some, Michael Vick probably seemed genuinely contrite in the press conference that followed his guilty plea today. Don't believe a word of it -- he's just trying to get out of jail.
As much as I despise the mob-like self-righteous outcry that highly publicized scandals usually create, in Vick's case consider me firmly on the bandwagon. I have a 9-month-old rescue dog named Ginger, and she's the sweetest creature I've ever laid eyes on. She's also a pit bull. When my fiancée and I found her, she was four months old, and one of her ears was sliced in half -- apparently, some asshole was trying to make her more "fight ready" but then wimped out. (And, for the record, she's never tried to bite another dog's throat out.) We like to think that her old battle scar adds character.
Unlike Vick's dogs, who will most likely be put down because all they've been trained to do is kill. Ginger's one of the lucky ones. When Vick gets sentenced on Dec. 10, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that he gets at least a few months in the clink.
