A page 1 article in the February 2, 2008, Cleveland Plain Dealer, "Dogged security guard caused quite the stir [1]", makes light of international concern over a dog photographed sitting alone in the window of an abandoned, boarded-up house in Cleveland, with the caption "Dog Days: Left behind as foreclosure crisis pounds U.S.", which was published in the Toronto Star, leading to local action in Cleveland to rescue the distressed animal, which turned out to be imprisoned by real estate speculators to protect their shit. They don't even own the dog... the article doesn't care who owns the dog... the article is pointless, yet surfaces pathetic flaws in the character of so many in our region.
The article basically said international outrage and concern over the cruel state of the dog's life was unjustified, as the dog was not living in an abandoned house by choice, which the PD would find cruel, but rather was locked alone in the house by strangers to protect their shit, which the PD finds logical.
The PD writer concluded concern for the dog is "How much ado about nothing..." This was, literally, the Cleveland Plain Dealer's official response to the world about our cruelty to animals here, being that it is okay for someone to lock a strange dog in a boarded-up, freezing house for un-told numbers of days (the current owners of the hosue (not the dog) have been renovating it since 2006)... that is how we do things in Cleveland, and our only official newspaper writes on the front page of the Saturday edition that it is okay. No wonder this is such a cruel place.
As a resident of this region and a person who respects the life and well being of other animals I do not believe this is okay - not the locking-up of the dog and not the insensitivity of the Plain Dealer editors and the author of this article. I apologize to the rest of the world for them, but I cannot say this is an isolated situation, as the people of the region and the media here are quite insensitive to modern reality, as so well illustrated by our public commitment to the politically incorrect "Indians" brand for baseball.
Attachment | Size |
---|---|
AniaBiting650.JPG [2] | 74.74 KB |
DogsPlaying650.JPG [3] | 98.59 KB |
DogsWithStick650.JPG [4] | 97.9 KB |
DogsFightingPanLogo.jpg [5] | 51.1 KB |
DogsFightingPan.jpg [6] | 1.11 MB |
Links:
[1] http://www.cleveland.com/plaindealer/stories/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1201944709154830.xml&coll=2
[2] http://smtp.realneo.us/system/files/AniaBiting650.JPG
[3] http://smtp.realneo.us/system/files/DogsPlaying650.JPG
[4] http://smtp.realneo.us/system/files/DogsWithStick650.JPG
[5] http://smtp.realneo.us/system/files/DogsFightingPanLogo.jpg
[6] http://smtp.realneo.us/system/files/DogsFightingPan.jpg