Sometimes, not often mind you, there is something called irony that rears its head.
Take this story, for example: an animal rights group called "Dogs Deserve Better" from Tipton, Pa. bought the five-bedroom, Surry County Va. home, once owned by Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick, for approximately $600,000. This was the home where the "Bad Newz Kennels" dogfighting ring was operated until a drug sting in 2007 brought it down. Vick eventually served 18 months in prison for his part in financing it.
The Dogs Deserve Better group plans to use the property as a home and rehabilitation center for dogs that have suffered through many of things that happened at that same location for years.
"I think by us overtaking this property we are winning for the dogs. We are, in essence, giving this property back to the dogs that were abused there by using it to help other dogs just like them," said Tamira Thayne, the group's founder.
Dogs Deserve Better secured the property, which Vick originally sold to a developer, with a 30-percent down payment acquired by a loan and various donations. According to the Associated Press, the plan for the property is to raise a total of $3 million to make the facility a full-scale animal rehab center. Thayne and another staff member will live on the property.
Recently I saw a dog standing on the side of the road, standing guard over an obvious friend who had been hit by a car and was lying motionless. I almost couldn't preach that morning our of grief for that dog.
This notion that dogs don't feel, aren't human, and all that stuff needs to go away. The purchasing of this home for the purpose it has been bought is one way that can happen.
Jesus, I believe, would approve.
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