Senseless Existence
I just got finished watching a documentary called "Off the Chain". It's an underground documentary about dog fighting, emphasizing in Pit Bulls. Although I won't go into exact details about what I saw in this video, it really made me wonder about human nature. I can NOT wrap my head around the fact that these people (dog fighters) in one breath will say that they love their dog and would do anything for their dog, but in the next breath say that if the dog embarrasses them or stops fighting that it needs to be taken out. And it's not like they just euthanize it so that the dog doesn't suffer. They either let it die from it's wounds, electrocute it, drown it, pretty much make it as painful of a death as possible. One man even had the nerve to say that these dogs do this because they want to. The dogs are in that ring because they chose to be. He said that it was completely voluntary on the dogs part. I don't think I have cried so much at a movie as I did watching this. One of the things that disturbed me as much as the dog fighting itself is that if you live in a state where Pit Bulls are illegal and you are caught with one the dog is taken away from you and even if you did every thing you were supposed to and the dog is the most gentle creature in the entire world, it's euthanized. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. A perfectly normal dog is put down because some dumb motherfuckers decided to turn theirs into a killing machine. And the law enforcement in this places say how they want it stopped and it needs to be stopped, but when one of the people that was in the documentary was caught and charged with several counts of animal cruelty and possession of dog fighting paraphernalia, the only thing that he was given was 6 months unsupervised probation. Does anyone really think that was enough to make him not go right back to dog fighting and just make sure that he is more careful about it?
