From today's Detroit Free Press: "Past the dead-end street and open cemetery grounds in a Pontiac neighborhood, there's a rugged, weed-infested path leading to the place where pit bulls fought. A bloody towel dangles from a branch. A chain with a padlock is wrapped around a tree trunk. When animal cruelty investigators responded in July to pleas for help from nearby residents, they found three scarred pit bulls chained to trees -- with bloody puncture wounds to their faces, legs and ears...Once thought of as confined mainly to the rural South, dogfighting is a growing national phenomenon that cuts across social, economic and racial lines...The Humane Society of the United States estimates 40,000 people participate in dogfighting nationally.
The Michigan Humane Society's Detroit office investigated 159 dogfighting complaints in 2006, up from 119 in 2005. This year, it investigated 74 through August, with 38 of those occurring since June."
The late, great conservative writer Frank S. Meyer used to say that civilization is, to a degree, always under threat from the "barbarians." Maybe this is another example. You just never know how barbarism will rear its ugly head.
