Sacred dogs

Recently in India a group of Hindus beat a Muslim man to death on the mistaken assumption that the Muslim had killed a cow.  In the U.S., where we routinely buy Big Macs at McDonald’s, this seems very strange.  They worship cows?  Really?

Here we worship dogs.  Today an article in the Allentown Morning Call noted that the pit bull that killed his owner in Upper Macungie township was not on the “dangerous dog registry.”  Pennsylvania actually keeps a list of dangerous dogs.  If you are the owner of a “dangerous dog” which has inflicted severe injury or killed a person or domestic animal without provocation while off the owner’s property, you register the animal with the Burea of Dog Law Enforcement and pay a $500 yearly registration fee.

There are 11 of these dogs in Lehigh County and 9 in Northampton County.  I understand that these dogs may have been mistreated, trained badly, or in some way misused.  I understand that they are animals who do not know right from wrong.  But really, wouldn’t it make more sense to euthanize them.

Wait, I forgot.  In America we worship dogs.