Haha! Death is scary!

Here's a convenient demonstration of the "eww, reality" mentality of Bay Area types.

I have never heard of open-field coursing. As with most sports, I'm not sure I see the point. That said, consider the complaints of Diane Allevato and Karen Wilson, who are, of course, women.

Participants defend this as a sport, one in which dogs follow their "natural instincts."

This doesn't strike me as particularly relevant as to whether it is or is not a sport. Is football a sport? Do people have a natural instinct to play it?

But what we are discussing here is really human, not canine, behavior. This is a human evil, mere entertainment for the people involved. Greyhounds are a breed of gentle giants -- they are not a breed out for blood. They love to run, but not to attack.

It takes guts for them to claim that the "natural order of things" is for animals to be so artificially bred for specific purposes, but that it suddenly becomes unnatural when one of those purposes reflects the pre-breeding situation.

Only people would turn dogs into killers, just as people have historically turned roosters and other animals against each other for sport.

Uh... before people, dogs were not killers?

posted by Beetle Aurora Drake 2/26/2006 03:42:00 PM #
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