What is the difference between dog fighting and hunting any animal other than hunting is legal killing?

michel vick versus cheney?What is the difference between dog fighting and hunting any animal other than hunting is legal killing?
First off, what Michael Vick did was ILLEGAL. Hunting is not.





Second, most people make a distinction between the way we treat companion animals like dogs and cats, and the way we treat animals raised for human consumption or which are wild and are hunted for human consumption. Put bluntly, as a society we do not think that it is okay to raise dogs or cats for slaughter. Dogs and cats are animals we have raised to a higher level, closer to us, than other animals we regularly deal with.





Third, in hunting, we at least pay lip service to preserving some level of fairness in the hunt that allows the prey animal a chance to escape or evade the hunt. At least in theory, the deer or pheasant or whatever it is that we're hunting has a fair chance to get away-- the hunter has to use a lot of skill and patience to be able to make a kill. In dog fighting, the dogs never have a chance to avoid the fight. The dogs that are killed because they don't ';make the grade'; are never afforded even a chance to get away. Killing a helpless companion animal that has no chance to get away is sick-making to most decent people.





Fourth, the animals involved in dog fighting are forced to suffer for the pleasure/financial remuneration of the people who participate. Both dogs in the fight suffer injuries, sometimes to the point where both animals end up having to be put down. Further, because of the illegality of the activity, the participants don't seek out vet care for animals that are injured, because of the fear of the vet shopping them to authorities. So the dogs are only afforded home treatment which can be very inadequate and which increases the suffering.





The whole idea of hunting is for the hunter to use his skill and training to stalk and kill an animal that is brought down in a clean kill without suffering. The ideal is that unless the hunter has a chance to make a clean kill, he isn't supposed to shoot; and that if he shoots and doesn't make a clean kill, he's supposed to immediately pursue the animal to assure that it is killed with the minimum of suffering.





Dogfighting, instead, is all about humans putting animals into a pit for the purpose of inflicting suffering for the entertainment of people who watch. It's disgusting.What is the difference between dog fighting and hunting any animal other than hunting is legal killing?
Don't forget to drink your cool aid.*
I guess Meat is Murder?





Does that make McDonald's the world's most prolific Serial Killer?





If you weren't so darn sad, you'd be funny.
Are you making excuses for Vick or just attacking hunters? Your political lean is obvious here especially after you yourself said the difference was legal.





Try coming up with something we can actually chew on. This is a baby food argument. Don't need any teeth for this one.
How many more times does this question have to be asked? There is no comparison at all between ';illegal dog fighting'; and ';legal hunting';!!!
. Vick's problem is that dog fighting in the state in question is illegal. Hunting is not.


Take your PETA/NAALCP BS elsewhere.
dog fighting, dogs are trained and condition to fight to their death. they get trained horribly for this purpose and this purpose only. it is cruel and unhumane.


well you go hunting in the wild, certain species are protected by law. gaming is control in most states and what you kill you eat.


what are you going to eat the dogs after you watched them killed themselves on a ring? no right.


it is not the same.
I was under the impression that dogs only fight when in fear, hunger, or to protect young. and not to the death for sure.





Hunting on the other hand helps keep the population under control.
I deer hunt, turkey hunt, etc. I HAVE NEVER tortured, electrocuted, drown or beaten the animals that I hunt TO DEATH!! Then I take them home, clean them and feed my family!!! Now, take your CR@P somewhere else, please. We are really sick of it!!! If you can't tell the difference, please go hide under a rock somewhere.
Can you prove Michael Vick eats the dogs killed in the fights he set up? If not then you should be able to see the difference.
we don't eat dogs


they are both idiots


but if i have to choose....Vick
How many dogs have your eaten? Stop trying to justify what Vick did and just get on with your life.
The fact that dogs are domesticated and are the most popular pets whereas the other animals aren't. People are much more familiar with dogs than wild animals. Not saying that it is right, but that is the difference.
It's hard to believe this is getting any traction. The differences are so vast it's dumbfounding that anybody could ask. I don't think you really want a book, which would be easy and still incomplete, but the main difference begins with dogs being bred and trained for fighting. Hunting is about hunting, and the kill should be a quick, humane end, only the denoument, not the purpose, of the hunt.
Because most hunters eat the animals, you dont eat dog in America. Some animals are overpopulated, so you hunt them to lower their numbers so they dont starve because of lack of food. dogs arent overpopulated. Some animals are nuisances and cause problems like dead livestock, and house pets usually dont cause problems and arent nuisances, they do complety opposite. this theory just doesnt make any sense to anyone with half a brain.
Guns and bullets, plus Vick didn't eat his dogs. Cheney on the other hand drinks the blood of his victims by biting them in the neck and has been know to turn into a bat at night.
I hear ya. Don't ya'll tell anyone this, but last week I got me 2 deers to square off agin' each other. The one was just kickin' white tail, but the othern just sat there. I decided I'd take him out! We went to Red Lobster.





NOW GET A LIFE AND GET EDUCATED ON HUNTING!!