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:: Saturday, November 21st, 2009Toward Democracy
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CREATURES OF NATURE
Michael Vick's dogs
I was profoundly moved by the following article, being all too aware of gratuitous violence in the human part of the animal kingdom – in large part because our species has long separated ourselves from nature and its creatures and systematically exercised power over them and one another. Until we wrap our hearts, minds and will around the question of “who we are as human beings,” quarrels and blaming over culture or country, religion or political philosophy (and who did what to whom) are just so much fiddling while we make our planet inhabitable for ourselves and the other species we use and abuse.
A brief sojourn at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary several years ago was an enormously pleasurable and hopeful experience. If you are moved to contribute to Best Friends, which spares no effort or expense in caring for each creature that comes into their care, the address is 5001 Angel Canyon Rd., Kanab UT 84741-5000. And contact them for a spectacular vacation volunteering.
Given Reprieve, N.F.L. Star's Dogs Find Kindness
By JULIET MACUR, New York Times, 2-2-08
The Best Friends Animal Society sanctuary in Kanab, Utah, is a new home for 22 of Michael Vick's former dogs.
KANAB, Utah — A quick survey of Georgia, a caramel-colored pit bull mix with cropped ears and soulful brown eyes, offers a road map to a difficult life. Her tongue juts from the left side of her mouth because her jaw, once broken, healed at an awkward angle. Her tail zigzags.
Scars from puncture wounds on her face, legs and torso reveal that she was a fighter. Her misshapen, dangling teats show that she might have been such a successful, vicious competitor that she was forcibly bred, her new handlers suspect, again and again.
But there is one haunting sign that Georgia might have endured the most abuse of any of the 47 surviving pit bulls seized last April from the property of the former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick in connection with an illegal dogfighting ring...
Read the NY Times story here.
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