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Eagles set meeting with animal welfare groups

The Philadelphia Eagles have called for a meeting with area animal welfare groups to discuss dogfighting in the wake of their signing Michael Vick.

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Eagles set meeting with animal welfare groups

POSTED: Friday, August 21, 2009, 10:55 AM

Inquirer staff writer Amy Worden reports:

The Philadelphia Eagles have called for a meeting with area animal welfare groups Monday to discuss dogfighting in the wake of their signing Michael Vick.

When asked the format, the Eagles said they would “just listen,” said Gail Luciani, spokeswoman of the Pennsylvania SPCA.

She said the Eagles were going to invite a lot of animal welfare groups, seeking to be inclusive, including the Chester County SPCA and the Delaware County SPCA.

Michael Vick will not attend the meeting, she said.

The meeting is set for 5 pm at the NovaCare complex.

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:19 AM, 08/21/2009

The Eagles will not do anything except provide lip service like they did with the "second chance" nonsense.

— RussOCNJ

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:33 AM, 08/21/2009

whatever...Vick has been here one week and I haven't heard or seen anything about him helping the community...Vick should be at all the animal shelters cleaning out all the cages and eat the Ron Burgundy cat poop! Oh and one more thing...EAGLES suck! Hope they have the kind of season the Mets are having :)

— tralala

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:33 AM, 08/21/2009

Eagles want to open some dialogue with the area groups because there are whisper's that none of them will link up with Vick giving him a regional avenue to continue to work. So the Eagles will listen to them, try to get them to lower their voices a bit, as well as get one of them to offer to allow Vick the opportunity to work for them.

— gee1971

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:42 AM, 08/21/2009

I hope they meet with every animal welfare group but PETA. Please don't give those hateful, terrorist-supporting loons any credibility.

— WooshMan

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:12 PM, 08/21/2009

The groups should also ask them to abandon the "Eagles" moniker and change it to "Tofu Rolls." Oh and then throw the dude Vicks into dog fighting ring.

— Sillimish

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:22 PM, 08/21/2009

I'm done with the Eagles. Had Vick gone elsewhere, we'd be making fun not excuses with "second chances." He had a "second" chance every day for six years and did nothing. He's only sorry he got caught. People like him, felons, can't vote and shouldn't be put in the position of being role models either. The Eagles sold out.

— amanda718

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:30 PM, 08/21/2009

I don't think the underlying issue is dogfighting. It's letting yourself be pressured by your peers. If Vick's first experience with animal abuse was HIS idea, then he's psychopath. More likely, he was hanging with his boys and someone already in that culture talked him into it. Couldn't handle not being "cool".

— swash1

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:42 PM, 08/21/2009

without amanda718, the eagles are doomed. is she done with football, or just our home team?

— schultzy

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:42 PM, 08/21/2009

without amanda718, the eagles are doomed. is she done with football, or just our home team?

— schultzy

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:45 PM, 08/21/2009

amanda718 -- parents are roll models. NOT ATHLETES!! Just as any other entertainer can still perform after being convicted, so can professional athletes. its called entertainment. get over yourselves. everybody doesnt think the eagles signing of vick is the end of the world. geez, stop worrying so much about dogs and save a child 1st, how about that!

— Phil MeNuggets

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:56 PM, 08/21/2009

I agree with the letter Tom Hickey, Sr. from DogPAC sent to the Eagles: "sent a letter to Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie urging him to prove his team's commitment to stopping dog abuse by donating AT LEAST the equivalent of Michael Vick's salary to dog shelters and rescues every year that Vick is an Eagle. That would mean donations of $1.6 million this year and $5 million next year, if Vick is still on the team."

— veritas1325

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:59 PM, 08/21/2009

The eagles are feeling the heat! Keep it up Philly! Don't let them bring down our city!

— RationAl

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:02 PM, 08/21/2009

The Eagles are trying to do the right thing...(no not the hiring Vick) by trying to get all the groups involved and to see how they would like to use Vick...It just makes sense haters......you can continue to hate and feel they made a mistake.....but think about it....they are going to force him and use him to make good on his "changed" (???) attitude.....Remember he was put away because he was a high profile guy...and PETA finally had a large public figure to point to...so why not use that same standard and let the animal rights groups benefit.......It is NOT a perfect world but here is achnce to help the cause or for you hateres, a chnce to see him "prove" his change..... ..

— nuggett