PETA: Kill People But Please Don’t Scare the Animals

PETA is apparently more concerned about some frightened animals than thousands of dead human beings. An international animal rights group called on Sri Lanka's separatist Tamil Tigers to "leave animals out" of the armed conflict, two weeks after a grenade attack blamed on rebels at the island's main zoo. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, said ...

Michael Vick’s Dogs

Good news for some of Michael Vick's dogs. Ten of the dogs have been taken in by a dog rescue group in San Francisco called Bad Rap. All ten dogs on well on their way to transitioning from a short brutal lives as warriors under a brutal and sadistic man to lives as happy family dogs. His back resting ...

Police Raid Wrong House, Kill Couple’s Dog

In what's becoming an all-too-common story, a D.C. area couple had their dog killed by police who were at the wrong house. An Accokeek [Maryland] couple is demanding an apology after Prince George's County Sheriff's Deputies burst into their home and killed their dog - all because deputies went to the wrong address. Pam and Frank Myers were tucked away ...

The Pit Bull Problem: Bad Dogs or Bad Owners and Bad Laws?

A woman in Washington was badly injured when a pit bull type dog and a pit bull mix breed dog got into her house and attacked her dog, the neighbors dog she was watching and then her. In the ensuing attack Ms. Gorman suffered extensive injuries to her face, arms, breast and upper body. Apparently the dogs got into her ...

Animal Rights and Libertarians

Jim Henley, Julian Sanchez, and Megan McArdle debate whether one can be a libertarian and simultaneously favor laws against animal cruelty. While there are many theories and many stripes of libertarianism (as anyone reading Henley, Sanchez, and McArdle on a regular basis would soon discover) it seems to me that at the core of all of them is the Harm ...

More Charges for Vick?

Looks like Michael Vick will face additional charges as the Virginia Commonwealth Attorney Gerald Poindexter says that he will be submitting his case to a grand jury on Sept. 25th. He has not determined which charges he would file but said he would aggressively prosecute based on previously acquired evidence and some of the evidence presented in the federal case. Dogfighting ...

Vick Plea Deal?

Michael vick might be taking a plea deal. According to the article the deal has Vick serving a year in prison, and supposedly Vick is waiting to find out how such a plea deal would affect his NFL career. The other people charged in the case along with Vick have already accepted plea deals and are waiting for the judge ...

Vick Associate Cops a Plea; Agrees to Work With Prosecutors

An associate, Tony Taylor, of Michael Vick has copped a plea and has reportedly admitted that the Virginia dogfighting operation was funded almost entirely by Michael Vick. Taylor admits to his role in the dog fighting operation, and in exchange for his cooperation he is looking to get a lighter sentence. Further, that the operation was started in ...

Libertarianism and Child Pornography

One of the issues I sometimes have with Libertarianism is when it is taken to an extreme. They take the either/or view when it comes to many intelligent animals. Consider this post by Skip Olivia over at the Misses blog. In that post and many of the comments we get variations on the “animals have no rights, ...

Michael Vick Indicted on Charges of Dog Fighting

Michael Vick, the quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons, has been indicted on dog fighting charges. This follows news that dozens of pit bull type dogs were found at a Virgnia property owned by Vick and tips that Vick had been involved in dog fighting for several years and was one of the people involved with the Bad Newz Kennels. ...

Police Shoot and Kill Dog

A rather common occurence. A police officer in Norfolk Virginia shot and killed a pit bull after he claims it charged him. The police's version of events is, Police say the dog was charging at the officer and the women in the accident. So the officer reacted. "He began to back up, yelling at the dog, but the dog continued ...

Romney’s Campaign Goes to the Dogs

Yesterday's Boston Globe report that Mitt Romney once strapped his dog to the top of a station wagon for a twelve hour car ride, during which the thing that the bumper stickers say "happens" in fact did, is getting much attention around the blogosphere. Ana Marie Cox attributes the behavior to Rommey's Mormonism although, to be honest, I'm pretty ...

Chinese Products Unsafe

I sent my wife this Reuters article about a recall on some wooden "Thomas and Friends" toys this morning because the children of some friends of our plays with them. Steven Taylor, though, noted something more within the rubric of the blog, though, deeper into the piece: The recall of toys made in China follows a series of health ...

Pet Food Recall Story Continues to Unfold

While we're on the subject of self-promotion, I keep reporting on the pet food recall story that's been unfolding for, now, three months because nearly every day there's something new to report. Yesterday the “something new” was that acetaminophen had been detected in pet foods which had been sent to a laboratory for analysis by enterprising (and concerned) pet ...

Michael Vick: Dogman?

Well, it seems that Michael Vick the quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons is also what is called a "dogman". A dogman is somebody who likes to fight dogs. Dog fights are brutal affairs. The dogs are fought until one of the dog scratches (refuses to fight) or one of the dogs is dead. The injuries that ...