I have a friend who was a court-appointed "friend" for the dogs in the Michael Vick case (a prominent US football player was involved in raising dogs for dog fighting). She was unable to save two of the 50 animals because they had been trained to viciousness and had to be "put down" because of it. Another friend has a rescued show-dachshund; rather, it wasn't quite good enough and so for two years was subjected to its spirit being broken (almost worked). A dog-fighting "mill" was broken up very near here and as a result dog-fighting is now a felony in Idaho.

When it comes to hunting I'm glad I live in the US -- and I pity those who have been shooting cattle and horses near here (some on an Indian Reservation) because if the ranchers catch them it'll be a toss-up whether they take the trouble to call the sheriff.

And I, as does everyone I know who hunts, abhor the "shooter bull" operations, where you pay several thousand dollars to kill a trophy elk or other animal. That's not hunting, that's simply being a slaughterman in an abattoir.

If you kill it, you eat it.