ANIMAL FIGHTING
Dante stopped too soon at nine circles of Hell. We may need a few more. The latest wrinkle in human depravity was featured in USAToday's March 10, 2010, edition. The headline of the article says it all: "Animal fighters looking for smaller game turn to finches."
Finches? Those cute little birds I have been feeding for decades? Finches are now involved in animal fighting? I knew about dogs and roosters, but even leaving aside the finches, the article describes some variations on animal fighting that are too disgusting to repeat here.
What kind of pathetic loser moron would want to watch two birds fight to the death? Or dogs or roosters or any other animals? What kind of sadistic bastard mutilates and conditions animals to engage in blood sports?
How badly do you have to want to gamble that you will sit and watch two animals fight to the death? How depraved and indifferent to suffering do you have to be to methodically torture and abuse animals in order to make them ring-ready?
The Michael Vick case had the beneficial effect of putting a spotlight on the underculture of animal fighting. It is sad to think that an unintended consequence of this was to force these people even deeper under some cultural rock.
March 11, 2010
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