"Lifting" - Dogs "shut in lifts for fight to death"

We're all getting very depressed in our house. The Mistress and her other half seem to have a lot of friends who want to leave "s**t Britain" for sunnier climes or a calmer pace of life. So many people seem to be giving Britain the thumbs down at the moment and if you read the papers, particularly the Sunday papers, you'll see what I mean. People are having to fight to get cancer drugs, the Government is clamping down on school admissions criteria, the housing market is going down the swanny, MPs are possibly bankrolling their families out of the British Taxpayer's pocket, young people are committing suicide, people are eating themselves to an early death and let's not even start on the sensitive subject of immigration.

And, as if all that weren't enough, today's Observer reports on a new worrying trend involving Staffordshire Bull Terriers.

Such dogs are "being used increasingly for street fighting and a practice known as 'lifting', in which dogs or a dog and a cat are sent down in a high-rise lift in the hope that they will savage each other while being filmed on a mobile phone".

I'm not going to rant about the individuals involved; what's the point? But, surely, someone, somewhere, has got to ask the question - how did these humans become so disconnected?

It seems to me that young people aren't living real lives but virtual ones - living through computers and mobile phones. Face-to-face interaction only happens with conflict, anger and putting on a front.

The Mistress has vowed not to leave the UK because she doesn't want to put me on a plane (in a crate) but, with news headlines like these, I think she may reconsider.

Woof Woof

Comments

[Richard Laplante]

Well, if you do leave the UK you might consider Canada. I left Scotland in the 1990's and outlived all my litter mates. But then again I passed away a few years ago. What the heck.