Blegging is not my style, but Mrs. Xrlq’s rescue group, Underdog Rescue, is in a bind. Recently, Underdog rescued this cute little terrier pup named Cara from the pound:

Cara is so friendly and was so excited to see her rescuer and her first adopted family, that she managed to act like she was in perfect health. Only after adopting her out did we learn that she had been seriously injured by a car. Her condition is operable, but costly, and the group is currently stretched to the limit with other needy dogs, including several others who also need expensive surgeries to survive.

Read more about Cara at Underdog’s site on Petfinder. Or email Mrs. Xrlq, Pamela Kearney or Lisa Lee for more information. Here’s a PayPal button. Any amount at all will help tremendously, and is tax-deductible to boot.

Some of our detractors say all right-wing bloggers think alike. Not so. This BFL roundup should make it clear that we are all individuals who hold a wide range of views on every issue under the sun. Today’s hot topic: Kos.

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The City of Barcelona has recently voted to ban bull fighting. Good for them. Cruelty to animals is cruelty to animals; there is no reason we should condone that barbaric practice solely because it is someone else’s “culture.” Slavery, ritual human sacrifice, dogfighting and even disco music have all been part of American culture at one time or another, but that doesn’t mean any of them should be condoned. Neither should bull “fighting,” which is really just the ritualized torture of an animal in front of a huge, sadistic audience.

Molly worries that this is a sign that Spain is continuing to go wimpy. I disagree. Bull “fights” are every bit as rigged as professional wresting matches, so they don’t require all that much courage on the part of the matador, who is all but guaranteed to win. They basically admit as much, by calling him the “matador” from the start. If the playing field were anywhere close to even, whoever survived the ordeal would be called th “matador,” and as often as not, that would be the bull.

Like I said, bull fighting should be banned everywhere, but if not, then let’s at least reform the rules to make it worthy of the faux machismo currently associated with it. Any matador with the stones to fight a bull on roughly equal terms would get all the machismo points he deserves. Everyone else is just a poseur.

UPDATE: Aphrael provides a link for info on bloodless bullfighting in California.