Our inhumanity to pets
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated" -- Mahatma Gandhi.
If this is true, then what my husband and I picked up off the road last Saturday night is a poor testament to our moral progress. With temperatures falling to the mid-20s, and a forecast of iced rain and sleet the following day, we question what immoral being could abandon three lab mix, 8-week-old puppies on our road. This was not the first time, nor will it be the last, that people throw out pets as if they were garbage.
When will the moral fiber of such beings realize that to have a pet spayed or neutered is the answer to the unwanted pet population, so that those with a conscience do not have to go around cleaning up their mess?
David and Jacqie Stansfield
Climax
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How do you know these puppies were thrown out? Maybe, just maybe they were offspring of stray mutts roaming the area!
Send'em to Korea, they'd make a great cassarole!
Posted on February 4, 2007 2:53 PM
Dear Mr. & Mrs. Stanfield,
Have you ever been to India? Ever heard the expression 'sacred cow'? The quote from Ghandi is not quite the one you should be using.
Posted on February 4, 2007 8:02 PM
Makes you wonder why vets haven't done the humane thing and just aborted these unwanted pets in the first trimester.
Posted on February 5, 2007 3:44 PM
Nit,
Had a cat who had already had one litter of kittens. Took her to the vet to get spayed and she was pregnant again--had the pregnancy terminated---are you going to start carrying a sandwich board at my VET's office now? Are you going to call the Vet a "murderer" or compare her clinic to the holocaust? Are you going to carry dead cat fetuses to scare off potential spay neuter clients? Will you go so far as to "bomb" the clinic? :)
Posted on February 5, 2007 4:13 PM