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Students protest the shooting of dogs in Call of Duty
The Raw Feed — ... in the new Call of Duty: World at War Xbox game. Students at Academy of Notre Dame, an exclusive private Catholic school, are concerned that while playing the game, in which 95% of the time players are killing people, players may be desensitized to violence against animals during the 5% when they're shooting attack dogs. (props to GamePolitics) ...

Students Protest Call Of Duty Dog Killing [Activision Activism]
Kotaku — ... the immensely popular video game in which the animated gore piles high. No, her two dogs wouldn't survive two seconds. They'd be ripped apart by the virtual dogs she is trying to defend, possibly because they're named "Fluffy" and "Winnie the Pooh". Incidentally, I think the Germans would have been a lot less sinister had they deployed squads of attack Pomeranians. "Kleine Hunde angreifen!" NDA students protest video game's depiction of cruelty to animals [Lowell Sun via Game Politics ]

Mass. students protest Call of Duty: World at War dog violence
Joystiq — ... 'This looks horrible!'" Although she's sure her brother "won't be killing dogs after playing," she believes "some people might." Lucci plans to forward her petition, which has been signed by more than 100 of her fellow students, to Activision. Contrary to some petitions aimed at game publishers, hers is simply a show of disgust, and does not call for any executives to be fired, boiled alive or hung by their feet until dead. You go, girl. [Via GamePolitics] Mass. students protest Call of Duty: World at War dog violence ...