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Thursday, December 24, 2009
Can You Identify This Mistreated Dog's Owner?
More sad Christmas news. Hopefully someone recognizes this dog.
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i think that once the individuals are found, incarcerated, and kicked in the nuts at least, say... 49 times, that we should applaud that achievment. and then we should inflict more severe penalties upon said person(s).
I second that. I don't know who does this, the shelter is like five minutes away. If you can't care of the your little baby just drop them off so someone can adopt them.
You don't see this in, say, Georgetown. Why? ( I used to live there in a home I purchased, so I'm not talking out of me arse-I'm just asking.....)
Because there is a long history of poor folks not givng a crap about anmals. The notion of 'pets' to many i the developing world is absurd. I spent a few months in poor areas of South Africa, and their view of doga would disturb many. However, read "The Great Cat Massacre" by Robert Darnton and you will see that even in 18th Century France, the notion of realy caring for an animal was not only absurd, but actually insulting to poor people. Animals did work or were food; anything else was bougeoissie (sp.). Michael Vick and many others from a poor, rural African-American culture views animals differently. And I, for one, think it continues to be a class issue.And the great hypocrisy: how many of you eat meat? You may think the animals are slaughtered humanely, because that lie makes it easier to enjoy your hamburger, but think about it next time you compare an animal abuser to a Nazi thug.
anon 1:07
dc is neither a developing third world country, nor is it rural.
also, you don't know any of us, so don't pull out the hypocrisy card.
this is america and it is 2009. we dont eat dogs, and any outrage for their inhumane treatment is justified.
anon does have a point. i get it.
i used to be a vegan... but it was cost prohibitive at the time, so i gave up.
i'm like a "piece of meat" to many, if not most, elected officials. i don't get slaughtered, but i do get screwed.
everyone is entitled to their point of view.
I agree with 1:07. Unless you're vegan, stuff it.
Anon 4:41, you're right DC is neither "third world" nor rural but there are people here who are extremely poor, which was one of the points that 1:07 was making. This is nothing new. I bet if you go to other cities, you'll see dog fighting and if you go to rural areas of America, you'll still see cock-fighting.
And since someone mentioned Michael Vick, I'll put in my 2 cents on that. I am not condoning his behavior, but I think people over-reacted to Vick's situation. There are people who have murdered and raped and got less time than he did. We've got people starving in the streets and people are up in arms about dogs. This is foolishness.
Inked - any information on how the dog is doing and/or adoption info?
Rebecca,
I don't have any other info. Anyone interested in adopting an animal can contact the DC Humane Society, or other adoption groups in DC. I'll add some links to the post.
There is a "No Snitch Rule in the Hood" so I don't think anyone will come forward to identify the abusers. I recommend starting a financial reward of $10,000. Please contact me if you are interested. Let's clean up the hood and get these people out, they are a disgrace to human beings.
C'mon, do you have to have a large image of an abused dog on your front page? I saw it became sick to my stomach. Please place it after the break to save the less desensitized amongst us a lot of unpleasantness.
Uh, I suspect making people uncomfortable is the point. Out of sight, out of mind.
I suppose, by that logic, that the Times should start publishing pictures of mutilated Darfurian orphans and decapitated POWs along with articles on those subjects. Do words not bring those issues to light? Or, are we in such an image based society that without a picture showing what a near dead dog looks like, people just won't get it.
All I suggested is that the image should be placed "after the cut" so that people have a choice whether to view an inarguably gruesome picture.
"Do words not bring those issues to light? Or, are we in such an image based society that without a picture showing what a near dead dog looks like, people just won't get it."
The latter. Without an image, 99.9999% of people will read the headline and maybe the first few words after, and respond with "oh, that sounds bad, I don't want to think about that. Is American Idol on?"
"There are people who have murdered and raped and got less time than he did. We've got people starving in the streets and people are up in arms about dogs. This is foolishness."
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it is foolishness to be upset by an abused animal?
we are allowed to be concerned with a multiplicity of issues.
once can be concerned about war, hunger, rape, litter, and jaywalking. all in the same little brain. try it sometime.
Kevin,
I I have never used an after the cut hidden format on this blog. The image was disturbing, and I'm truly sorry if it ruined your dinner.
But, though disturbing, the image wasn't graphic in the traditional sense. There was no blood, no dead body. Just a photo of a dog, that I hope anyone would call the Humane Society after seeing on the street. Apparently multiple people saw this dog in real life and did nothing. That, to me, is the scary/sickening part. The problem is that there are other dogs like this out there, and plenty of alley cats too.
After my cat Nick died of old age (he has around 18, but age is hard to gage because I adopted him at around 12, and he had FIV) I adopted two sister kittens who were alley cats. They are healthy, and happy in their new home.
My point being that there are always animals out there who can use a good home.
Dog lovers can check the sites that I provided.
Not that anyone asked, but I agree with Inked's decision to run a photo of the dog. After all, the matter at hand is THIS dog, not just dogs in general. It would make sense that you could more easily identify the dog if you actually saw the photo.
And it's sad, but it's not particularly graphic in any gratuitous sense.
And I'm not quite sure why a previous poster was defending Michael Vick. He tortured and killed numerous dogs for sport. Comparing his sentence to people that supposedly got less time for murder or rape is silly, in large part because the sentences for murder and rape are usually more than what Vick got, and if people are actually getting less time for murder and rape that's a problem with the judicial system in those cases, and shouldn't be a reason to excuse the willing torture of dogs for sport.
The dog was euthanized. Starvation is a long process of neglect and really hard on the body. A shame no one saw the dog before she got this bad off and reported it to the authorities.
and for those who found the image to be gruesome, seriously, I want your life.
Anyone have a good idea as to who to report animal abuse/neglect to? Two owners that share my alley have dogs that are just a smidgen healthier than this poor girl. We've called the cops and animal control and the humane society, but because the dogs are in a yard, there's "some" visible food, and there's a small porch roof/awning over their heads, the authorities aren't able to do anything. The dogs spend about 16 hours a day outside on concrete parking pads, with very little shelter, and you can see dog bowls but I imagine that after 16 hours of no human intervention there often isn't much in those bowls. The owners of both sets of pits are generally offenders of other crimes, such as using the sidewalk as an alley/bathroom, junking their old cars on the street, selling small amounts of drugs ... It just seems to me that the animal control laws in DC are in line with the loitering, noise, littering laws in DC... negligible and rarely enforced or nonexistent.
anonymous, you are a well-read, well-traveled dick.
this is heartbreaking, hopefully everyone will support the DC Humane Society and other District organizations working to save these poor creatures, and punish the animals who abuse them.
c. salvo
Anyone want to make a wager on the race of the dog owner?
For those of you thinking this is a poor African American thing forget that Vick was not poor or necessarily from a rural background. Most of the blacks walking pitbulls in PG County aren't poor or rural either.
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