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It all depends on one's mood. For a closing dog story, who wants sentimental? Who wants sickening? NBC's Mike Taibbi opted for sentiment, showing us his 14-year-old pug Scoop, ailing with bad kidneys, to illustrate his feature on the $13bn business of veterinary medicine for house pets. The latest entry is animal pharma, "everything from Puppy Prozac…to drugs for pet obesity, infertility, even carsickness."
For the sickening, CBS' Bill Whitaker picked up on the arrest of NFL quarterback Michael Vick for running pitbull fights. Using blood sport videotape, Whitaker told us that this "seamy, disturbing, yet fast growing underworld" is spreading from its origins in the rural South and "now can be found in every state, attracting urban professionals, gangbangers, even teenagers--40,000 fans by some estimates." Wayne Pacelle, Whitaker's source from the Humane Society, told him that prizefights can last as long as three hours, with the loser typically dying from "blood loss or shock."
You decide. At Tyndall Report, sickening wins our vote.
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