Letters to the Editor
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It puzzles me that there are people who always want to kill SOMETHING.
I am outraged at dogfighting. I intensely dislike the occasional gang-type I see hanging around with a pit as an accessory. I am infuriated by the callous treatment and brutal abandonment of these animals.
However, I am beginning to wonder how much REAL difference there is between people like Micheal Vick and people who are eager to see pit bulls killed -- because that is what a breed ban would mean. More animals killed than the appalling number we already see euthanized at our local animals shelters. When I lived a a city of forty thousand plus, I once heard someone explain that from 2,000 to 3,000 dogs and cats were put to death every month because they had become lost and not reclaimed or abandoned outright.
I know that there are people who claim that dogs do not have "souls." Frankly, I am not sure people do. However, if we were comparing canine decency to human decency, I would vote for the dogs every time.
Where is the decency of adding thousands more dogs (pits) to the number of destroyed animals in our nation -- especially when death and injuries by pit bulls is a statistically minor problem compared to many others that plague us?