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SOUND OFF: Should Michael Vick Have a Dog?

How do you feel about the NFL player's ownership of a dog after being convicted of funding and orchestrating a dogfighting ring?

 

Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick, arguably known more now for his dogfighting ring conviction than his football career, announced this week that his family owns a dog.

Since being released from prison in 2009, Vick has spoken out against animal cruelty, and the Humane Society president has said in the past that he believed Vick would make a good pet owner.

Some believe Vick's apologies are sincere, and that welcoming of a dog into his family is a good opportunity to teach his children.  Others feel, particularly with Vick's admission to hanging and drowning dogs, that he doesn't deserve another chance.

Where do you stand on the issue? Has Michael Vick convinced you that he has changed his ways? If not, is there anything he could do to make you comfortable with him owning a dog? Should those convicted of abusing animals be given a second chance? Or, did they lose that chance? 

Related Topics: Michael Vick and dogfighting

Milford Senior Man

1:03 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

This may may be a great football player but look what he was doing. He's sorry because he got caught. Those dogs were forced to fight to their death while Mr Vick looked on and cheered. How a human could do that to man's best friend is beyond me. He should never be able to have any type of animal ever!

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Dale Rhoads

2:02 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

He shouldn't be allowed to own a mouse!

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Lexy Says So

2:19 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

Should a child molester, who has done his time in prison and spoken out against child molesting, be given a foster child???? I don't think so. Someone who was killing animals with their bare hands and using them in bloody, brutal fighting, should ever be able to own another animal. I don't care how "convincing" he sounds. This is sociopathic behavior and we should not be using another innocent animal to "test" whether or not he has really changed. Some behaviors don't deserve a second chance.

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Heather

2:25 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

No way! Lexy you took the words out of my mouth! Should a pedifile be able to open a child care center?

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Cindy in Boylston

2:29 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

He should not. He could have shown that he had learned about right, wrong, and dogs by volunteering for them. He chose not to. What would happen to this pet dog if Vick had a bad day? He killed his fighting pits on a good day. Maybe when his children are older and he tells them what he did, they can consider a pet.

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Janet Otto

3:59 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

No way! What he did to dogs was horrible. I agree with Cindy! I adopted a Shiz Tzu that was abused and make me made I think of what he indured.

Dog Love

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kate f

9:52 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012

Of course not...arrogant and has no conscience obviously. How can he have a dog as a pet in his home and know how he treated them in the past..before he was caught. Sadly, his young children will know what he did.

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FF

8:59 am on Friday, October 19, 2012

He is in violation of his probation. He should be incarcerated .At the very least
removed from the NFL.

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