Man’s best friend?
Over the past few months I have noticed violent behaviour towards dogs around my neighborhood, begining first with a young dog starved so that he could be ready to fight. Sadly, the dog lost the fight and the next day was found tied up in a trash bag left by a light pole to be picked up, some people around my neighborhood only buy dogs in order for them to fight others. Though how do you talk to the people who do these things? Right now this family has two puppies who are freezzing outside and looked a bit starved.
Two weeks later as I was walking home from school I saw by a small tree a dog with his intestines pouring out of its chest, I wish I had a camera at the time to take a photo of this terrible image.
Yesterday while walking from a friend’s house I heard a dog crying, I looked around but saw nothing but an abandoned house and a cord tied around the railing of the house, was there a dog trapped inside of this house I asked myself. There was, as I stood there for a few minutes I could hear the dog crying behind the shut door and the cord being pulled which led me to believe that he was tied up and attempting to free himself.
The block that I was on is not necessarily the safest place to be and is always heavily watched by someone even when you think its not, this sounds a little paranoid I know but a lot has happened since I moved from there and around the corner. Getting a last look at the abandoned house I started to walk back to work wondering if I should call the SPCA or Philadelphia’s finest. The last time that I called the SPCA for two kittens that were found by my mother in front of our house they never came, when I called them about my cat living outside and wanted them to come pick her up they never came, so I called 911.
It didn’t occur to me to see if the door was open, now that I think about it in order for the dog to be locked it maybe it was, in any case when calling 911 the operator asked and I said “Yeah, its locked.” She acted kind of rude when asking if I had actually seen the dog and kept going back and forth with this when finally I decided to make myself clear by saying, “Ma’m I can hear the dog crying and I can see the cord being pulled so obviously the dog is in the house.” She said ok and that she would send an officer out to check.
I understand that some people make false calls but not everyone, which doesn’t give her the right to act so rudely on the phone, even when you try to help it seems you get yelled at. Today I was walking past the house and could only see that the cord looked loosen, but the door was shut. This could mean that the police actually came or the dog choked itself trying to get free because I didn’t hear any crying or saw any tugging.
Why do people do these things?
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I like how you connected this handful of experiences into a bigger discussion. I remember at HLC how there were always dogs whining and barking behind the building, from the top floor of the center you could see these dogs were living in abandoned houses.
The big question of WHY is more discouraging. My understanding is folks fight dogs to gamble. As our friends at Casino Free Philadelphia could tell you, gambling is highly addictive and rarely benefits a community.
Michael Vick might be a great person to ask. According to Whoopi Goldberg, this is a southern tradition:
“He’s from the South, from the Deep South … This is part of his cultural upbringing,” Goldberg said of the Atlanta Falcons quarterback, whose recent fall from grace has been one of the most stunning in the history of U.S. sports.
Have any friends or relatives in the south? Might want to ask them if they agree with Goldberg. Nice post, Peak.
Here’s a key quote I should have included from later in the article:
‘”To suggest that there is some ethnic group or racial group or regional group that finds this acceptable is just not accurate,” he told Reuters, adding that public opinion polls show opposition to dogfighting “is a universal value in America.”
He noted that dogfighting is outlawed in all 50 states, and a felony in all but two — Idaho and Wyoming.’