With Michael Vick in the news, all that publicity, it got me to thinking.
Personally, I cannot stand to watch dogs fight. That goes for two mutts on the block, much less two trained animals tearing each other apart. I have no respect for people that would do such a thing. I've got a pit-bull laying on the floor next to me, and if anybody wants to get her in the ing...show some heart and get in the ring with me first.
Unfortunately I grew up around a bunch of this and I have always hated it. I can understand why the dogs fight- hell, I box(ed)-but why people would get them to do it escapes me. But, really, is it so much different from a trainer/fighter relationship? This troubles my mind.
Cockfights...between roosters, like male chickens (i know this is an "adult" board ) is something else. Again, I have no desire to watch two roosters fight with straight razors strapped to their claws. But if they just happen to fight-as nature ditates- in the barnyard, I'll watch all day. Once, when I was 11, I watched two roosters fight for nearly 2 hours. I didn't make them fight, nor did I arm them and they both walked away. One hell of a fight, though.