Tidings of comfort and joy

[truepenny]

Everybody knows the starfish parable, right? "It mattered to that one"? Here's how it applies to pit bulls.

Comments

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

I'm skipping my breed-specific ban rant and going straight to YAY! I'm *so* glad that people are working with these dogs and their work is making it into the public eye.

[callunav.livejournal.com]

There's sort of a tightrope-walk feel to reading about it: I have to balance on the narrow strip of the good that's happening now, and not let my too-well-informed brain slip off into thinking about what produces reactions like that. It's heartwarming, but tricky.

[liveavatar.livejournal.com]

Beyond the article by itself, I'm deeply touched by Paws for Tales, which may be one of the sweetest ways a dog could help a child.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Oh. That just about made me bawl.

Also, even if they weren't before? PETA is dead to me as a pack of hypocrites.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

Yay for dog rescue! *cuddles them*

[raisedbymoogles.livejournal.com]

*hearts so much*

[liminalia.livejournal.com]

PETA's ultimate goal is no human-animal interaction at all. No meat animals, no therapy animals, no service animals, no pets. Never mind that humans and dogs and cats have pretty much evolved into symbiotic relationships. And they've been caught redhanded with the bodies of hundreds of dead animals in their headquarters' cooler. They're no friends to animals.

I'll save my other rant about their use of objectified female bodies in their ad campaigns.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

We just had a couple of bikini-clad PETA girls standing outside a local KFC here. In Maine, in the snow, in subzero windchill ratings.

I guess they volunteered, but doesn't sound like Ethical Treatment to me . . .

[liminalia.livejournal.com]

Or sanity, for that matter.

[ginny-t.livejournal.com]

Yeah, just like that. Oh, PETA.

But I'm very happy for those puppies. Regardless of how "normal" they can be, they deserve the kindness they're finally getting.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I was trying not to go off on that, but--

ETHICAL. UR DOIN IT RONG.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Indeed. They made me go ogle the doggies I can't have at the Humane Society website again. :/

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

INVISIBL ETHICS.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I'M IN UR ETHICS, STEALIN UR CREDIBILITY

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

CREDIBILITY: NO CAN HAS

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

Thank you thank you for sharing this story. I'd never have seen it otherwise.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Sports Illustrated often has surprisingly well-written articles-- I say surprising because I only read it if someone recs one or I'm in a doctor's office.

Thanks for that one. Some of the sweetest, friendliest dogs I've ever known have been pit bulls. I had assumed that all the dogs in that case had been euthanized, so it was lovely to hear that most of them got a second chance.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was one of the secondary cool things about the article--after the primary coolness of the dogs getting help: Sports Illustrated gives a damn.