NFL football star and animal abuser Michael Vick says he would really like to get another dog. He says it will help with his “rehabilitation.”

I don’t know whether he should be allowed to own another dog or not. But when it comes to the kind of animal cruelty Vick went to prison for I don’t believe in rehab. Meaning I don’t believe empathy towards animals can be taught. You’re either born with it or you’re not.

No one had to teach me that raising dogs so I could watch them tear each other apart is wrong. My parents never told me that electrocuting a dog to death was wrong. My dad never sat me down and as a child and warned me never to hang dogs in the future.

I wasn’t taught those lessons because I already knew them. It’s obvious that treating dogs like that is repugnant and immoral. It goes without saying.

Michael Vick’s inability to feel empathy towards animals is an indicator of an antisocial or sociopathic personality. Think of it like a birth defect.

This is truly outrageous. Army Sgt. Terry Young brought home the dog who saved his life in Afghanistan. The dog alerted he and his men to the presence of a bomb. Young named the dog “Target” and brought him back home to Arizona. He said the dog was amazingly resilient. The Afghan villagers the soldiers were living with at the time repeatedly tried to kill Target, but he would not die. Even surviving a gunshot wound.

Target disappeared from Young’s home on Friday. A request went out on Facebook for help in finding the dog. Animal control picked up the dog on Friday after receiving a call about a stray dog. The dog was kept over the weekend at the shelter and on Monday morning it was euthanized.

Shelter officials say the dog was not scheduled to be euthanized and the employee responsible did not follow proper procedure.

“I am heartsick over this.  I had to personally deliver the news to the dog’s owner, and he and his family are understandably distraught,” said Animal Care and Control Director Ruth Stalter.  “We work hard get to strays reunited with their owners.  When it comes to euthanizing an animal, there are some clear-cut procedures to follow.  Based on my preliminary investigation, our employee did not follow those procedures.”

That is truly horrifying. Of all the dogs they could mistakenly kill it had to be that one. Unbelievable.

Here’s a clip of Target when he first arrived in the US: