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Mike Vick: I would like to own a dog again someday
![]() Why Mike?? Why?? http://content.usatoday.com/communit...gain-someday/1 Michael Vick would like to be a dog owner again. The Philadelphia Eagles QB -- convicted in 2007 of a federal dogfighting crime -- has said he would like to run full circle and again own a dog if the courts will allow him. Vick was banned from owning a dog as part of the sentence handed down that sent him to prison for 18 months. "I would love to get another dog in the future," Vick told TheGrio.com. "I think it would be a big step for me in the rehabilitation process. I think just to have a pet in my household and to show people that I genuinely care, and my love, and my passion for animals." Vick, enjoying one of his best-ever seasons after winning the Eagles' starting job in September, has tried to make amends for his dogfighting past. He completed his 20-month sentence, which included two months of home confinement, and began working with the Humane Society. Vick was banned from owning a dog under the terms of his supervised release in July 2009. The supervised release was set to run for three years. Vick has since apologized for his role in the dogfighting ring and he now informs young people about the evils of the bloodsport. He told TheGrio.com he was around dogfighting from a young age. "I hate to use our culture as an excuse, but it is what it is and that's what happened and that's the way I thought about it growing up," Vick said. "This is just the way we were brought up." Vick has said that prison changed him and made him a smarter and more mature person for having to endure the embarrassment and personal pain of incarceration. And he made an interesting note about what advice he would give now to himself four years ago. "That Mike probably wouldn't listen to nothing that I had to say," Vick said. |
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I saw this... why would he come out and say this????
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In before DC
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Now you've pissed me off!
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I wonder how OJ feels about having another ex-wife again someday?
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I don't care if he does. I don't think him owning a dog means he's going to make it fight another one, or kill it.
I'm assuming he was responding to a question. |
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This.
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most dogfighters love dogs. i dont have a problem with him owning another one.
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This is equivalent to a convicted pedophile musing over trying adoption again.. |
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I wonder if Whitlock will comment on Vick's remarks on dogfighting as a "cultural" thing. It doesn't excuse his actions by any stretch but it might be worth discussion.
Granted, I also had a friend in HS whose father raised cocks for fighting. I questioned the ethics of this and he explained to me that it's not as bad as dogfighting or horsefighting(?!). I left it at that as they're just chickens anyway, and who am I to comment on the mistreatment of a disgusting bird which I really enjoy eating.
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...as a pet or...?
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Oh, please let it be a labradoodle.
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Let go.
The guy made a mistake and has payed for it in dividends. Let him have one.
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