Thanks to the good folks at Gadzoo.com for spreading the news about Michael Vick’s former fighting dogs. (Gadzoo powers pet news on newspaper websites nationwide. Check your local newspaper for a pet page.)

It sounds like National Geographic will be airing a program dedicated to DogTown, where many of Vick’s pit bulls now live. Lo and behold, two of them are being honored with a Canine Good Citizen Award.

Law and order conservatives would have all pit bulls off the streets. It doesn’t matter that a tiny minority of them give the whole breed a bad rap. My owner’s sister’s pit bull is vegan and sleeps like a cat. She’s mildly aggressive when you rub her nipples too hard, but who wouldn’t be?

How about background checks for pit bull owners? Article 1, section 1, line 1 for that piece of legislation: Hyper-fast, cannon-armed NFL quarterbacks are prohibited from owning pit bulls. Leave your thoughts on who shouldn’t own a pit bull in the COMMENTS section.

I know, I know. Conservatives will say that this is the typical liberal blame-someone-else game. Just watch the National Geographic program and see who’s to blame.