-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Robison <
miker_zspider@yahoo.com>
>Sent: Aug 31, 2007 1:08 PM
>To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Pelecanos on dogfighting in
the New Republic
>
>Interesting. He's got a dog named Buster.
>
>If it's wrong to murder dogs, I wonder if it's
wrong
>to murder cows, too.
>
>miker
>
>
In 2001 I wrote and directed a documentary about dog fighting
for a syndicated tv show called SAVING THE ENDANGERED
SPECIES. Researching this show was one of the most disturbing
things I've ever had to do. The actual dog fighting is merely
the tip of the iceberg when it comes to this crime. The
American Pit Bull is not born vicious. It can be one of the
most gentle and loving animals. Loyal and trustworthy. The
scumbags who put on these fights put the pit bulls through an
extremely cruel and grueling training process that turns them
murderous. This training often includes the abduction of
local animals used as baiting material to give the dog the
taste for killing. If your cat or small dog ever goes
missing, never to return, it is a good possibilty that it has
been used as a bait animal. In other words, it was torn to
shreds for the amusement of some very bad people.
The matches themselves are almost always a meeting ground for
criminal elements, a networking platform where other crimes
are planned or actually take place, drug deals, gun deals,
etc.
Then there is the cruelty of the matches themselves and the
brutal aftermath which has been covered in the media as of
late, so there is no need for me to go into that. The only
winners in these matches are people none of us would want to
spend time with. The victorious dogs themselves are almost
always mauled badly. Some live to fight another day, others
die before the sun sets on their "victory." The losers rarely
last even that long.
After I finished the documentary I started a novel about dog
fighting. It did not take long for me to realize that I had
seen enough of that world and I no longer wanted to go there.
That is a book I doubt I will ever finish.
TL
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