2 Woofs, a Yip, and a Woof

Well, the Michael Vick case just keeps getting more interesting...

Now, despite the fact that Vick has said that he was rarely at the Virginia house he owned where officials have found evidence of dog fighting and that he never took part in the practice, investigators don't agree. Kathy Strouse, the animal control coordinator for the City of Chesapeake in Virginia which is investigating the case at the Smithfield home, has spoken with individuals who can "put Vick on that property" during matches. Saying she is "very confident" that Vick will be tied directly to the dog fighting on the property, Strouse has challenged Surry County Commonwealth attorney Gerald Poindexter to bring charges.

But Michael Vick is famous...

"I'm not going to be a party to a witch hunt," Poindexter said, according to the Journal Constitution. "This [process] will not be driven by people who hate Michael Vick, love Michael Vick or people who love animals."

What the hell is this guy smoking? Make no mistake, something really bad was happening around that house, a house that Vick owned but "left to my family members and cousins". I call bullshit. Lately, reports regarding his involvement in the operation keep surfacing.

- Police conducting a drug investigation at the end of April raided the Vick-owned house and reported finding dozens of dogs, some injured and emaciated
- Investigators also discovered items associated with dog fighting, including veterinary supplies, blood-soaked carpeting, treadmills used for training and tools used to pry apart a dog's jaws.
- Sports Illustrated reported on its Web site on Thursday that two friends of Vick said the QB knew about the dog fighting operation at the home.
- WAVY-TV in Norfolk reported that clerks at a store near the property said Vick bought items such as syringes typically used in dog fighting.

But make NO mistake, this is about protecting your local famous athelete. This is about protecting the sterling (?) image of Surry County, VA, that it is not some back woods redneck shithole where people play banjos and watch dog fighting. More to come, but now, as you look at the Vick family, you begin to realize that the dickhead younger brother Marcus is not the exception, but the rule; and now, apparently coming to light, big bro Michael is the same way.