He will get to own dogs again after May 2012. But he is whining for that new puppy now.
There are ways of putting a pet down with the least of suffering then there were the way Vick did it including drowning. Maybe things are different in your parts but I don't find anything entertaining about drowning a dog.
Hey listen, most guys have done something in the past of which they are ashamed. It could be anything from participation in gang fights, jumping somebody, vandalism, inflicting pain upon another living being for pleasure, wife-beating (girlfriend-beating) slapping, theft, or whatever.
Heck! We even get brainwashed into joining the military so that we can go into someone else's land to kill all of the available folks we see. However, when you get back home, if you try to do that same crap again after you get pissed at group of drunks cursing your name from across the street, they call it mass murder. You then don't get medals for heroism. You do however, get to go to prison for life!
So life is full of twists turns and surprises. People can be rehabilitated believe it or not. People change daily. People switch political parties. People change their minds all of the time. We can go from radicals as adolescents to ultra-conservatives at the age of forty.
When I was an adolescent, I did some pretty stupid things. Most of the bad things that I did involved vandalism. Some of the things that I did back then makes me shiver at how blatantly stupid they were. I would never do anything like that again. There are things that I've done at 13, that you couldn't pay me to do at 18 years of age. There are things that I've done at 18, that I would absolutely refuse to do at the age of 25 years. There are things that I did at 25, that I would feel quite stupid doing at the age of 40 years.
I've known guys who've fought dogs before. They would usually end the conversation with, "Damn man! That's too bad about Bullet. That was a really good dog, though!" Eventually, they mature and they stop fighting dogs on their own. I think Vick, just like all the rest of those fools in the NFL. He just had too much money and too much time on his hands. When you add those features to a slice of immaturity and a slice of adventurism, you've got a pretty stupid-looking sandwich.
It's not like Vick was convicted of child abuse or child molestation or something and now he wants to start a nursery school for kids.
He most probably really does like dogs and just wants to prove to both himself and society, that he's not the monster the press portayed him to be.
Let the man have a dog! His dog will most probably eat better than any of us do, today!