As a disclaimer right up front let me say that I don't believe that dog fighting, and the inhumane treatment of them is either a racial or political issue, it is a social issue  I also acknowledge that it has been around for a very long time.

With that being said what is up with these people who have money coming out their ears yet participate in something so ugly and cruel to make more?  In case you missed it there has been a another arrest for dog fighting, and this one's name is DMX, I believe he is a rapper but it is probably safer to say he is a musical oral performer because I don't consider rap "singing" 

Another question, why do people get dogs only to chain them up in the backyard to the extreme that you can tell by their surroundings when you see them that they rarely get off of it?  I see them all the time when I inspect properties.

Let me add another vein to the subject.  We have a local subdivision that the Post Office wants to stop delivering to because of the high number of incidents of attacks by dogs.  The people don't like it and I don't blame them but should a postal delivery person be forced to face that danger? Should they be allowed to carry some sort of defense, and what happens when they do and someones animal out running the streets gets killed?

Is dog fighting being glamorized in music?  Is dog fighting not only cruel, but a form of canine slavery?  No doubt there is a large number of people who feel the dog tracks are cruel as well, and I won't argue that one but is it the same as tying dogs to a treadmill for hour upon hour or killing them when they aren't winning, or hurt badly and no one wants to take some of that fat cash to take them to a vet.  Again, I am not defending dog tracks but I think they're two different issues.

Lastly, the breed itself.....Pit Bull.  There have been cycles through the years on large breeds that become so popular they're overbred.  As a child it was the German Shephard, and people got hurt/killed.  Then it was the Doberman, then the Rotweiler, and now the Pit Bull.  Should we add to the bureaucracy creating more laws regarding animals when it's a struggle to enforce the ones already there?

You don't hear that often about an adult being killed by either a pack of dogs or a lone attacker, its the little ones being killed, or disfigured for life. 

Is this something that is getting out of hand, is this a new trend with some specific part of our society? Or, is the media making it seem larger then it is and producing the "appearance" of something that has a much broader reach?

Lily from the different things you have blogged about I am making the assumption that you are very much into animal rights to the degree where you input is really valuable to me.  I am counting on you contributing to these questions to provide more information.