I really liked this story! I have always had a balanced approach to animal rights and get very fed up with the activist/terrorist types and much of PETA's propaganda.
I don't hunt, for instance, but I am not anti-hunting when someone practices lawful, safe and careful hunting, having practiced shooting at a target so they are not like to just maim animals. Wildlife MUST be managed if we are to have healthy herds. Deer overran Connecticut so badly, that they were eating everyone's foundation plantings and many, many starved to death. Have you ever seen a starving deer? I have, and it's not pretty.
I would much rather see these activists invest time and money in promoting neutering of animals. But if people simply won't or can't afford to have their pet neutered, then the shelters will be filled to over-capacity. WHY have these animals go to "waste" indeed, when they can help man and their fellow animals live longer and better lives. I'm an organ donor. And I would donate my beloved Higgins body if it meant some other little Yorkie could live. And why can't we do stem cell research with the "waste" of aborted fetuses? I know I'm opening a can of worms here, but suffering and death are a part of life and we MUST deal with these issues to the benefit of all as best we can.
And to not euthanize animals when they are clearly in terrible pain? It is something that are going to have to carefully consider for ourselves, too, you know.
Hooray for Itsy Bitsy DeBakey and her wonderful "dad."
Hugs,
Mary Ellen |