Pet Party Line is a column written by Beth Byrd and is featured weekly in The Citizen News, one of our local newspapers.

"A Letter From Our Founder on Dog Fighting"

Dear Friends of All God’s Creatures,

I sit in my living room this muggy August evening and I keep thinking about the recent national news story concerning dog fighting. I’m trying to comprehend just why anyone would do or be involved in, such a cruel activity. To think that making a creature that was put here to help us, comfort us and love us, fight until maimed or dead, is going on in our country and even our own state, is incomprehensible.

To try and excuse these actions as anything less than cruel, heartless and being egotistical, is also absurd. These animals are not born mean or vicious. They are a product of inhumane and ignorant people.

To have such a heartless consideration for a life, whether it is four-legged or not, is more than I can absorb. A so called sport, that involves a trusting, caring, completely dependent creature, is the ultimate betrayal of responsibility and trustworthiness given to us, as caretakers of dependent lives.

Please, please, think before ever considering that this activity is remotely acceptable in our society and in the eyes of the one who created both human and animal.

Sincerely,

Denise Lee Holcomb, Founder, All God’s Creatures