Did anyone read about the seaizure of the 100 dogs at an apparant "rescue facility" in Wingo Kentucky.
Operation Sweethearts was carried out by the Animal Rescue Corp
you can go to www.animalrescuecorp.org and read the story and see the pics. they are graphic. a girl from Nova Scotia is there helping out the resuce team. someday I will be doing this work too.
But remember a child went to sleep hungry this evening......priorities.
What "priorities" are those? We should allow animals to overbreed, and end up in shelters and then rescues that turn into death camps, because the human safety net is broken? How does it help that hungry child to kill five million "pets" in this country every year that should never have been born? Or to have people running around trying to rescue them until they turn into part of the problem? Can you explain that? Does it make the child less hungry if we kill more? Really? How does that work? I don't think so, and that is a cop-out used by people who want to keep ignoring the problems that humans are creating for themselves and other species.
It's your way of convincing yourself that the suffering of those animals doesn't really matter, I suppose, and that's fine. Do what you need to do so you can continue to act like the five million "pets" we slaughter every year don't matter, and the abuse victims don't matter, and you don't have to get involved. But this isn't the place for it, unless you want to get an ear full.
The fact is that if you look around, you'll find the most and the worst of these scenes in places where people are also the poorest. The two problems go hand in hand and they aggravate one another. Poor people often have pets, and have far too many of them because they don't have the money to get them spayed and neutered. To the extent that they feed them, they take food from their own tables to do so. They have less services such as animal control, more loose and dangerous animals running loose, and more abuse of animals by ignorant people who take the attitude that you just displayed to a higher level. More abused and neglected animals end up in shelters, fewer locals trying to save them. More cheap land also contributes.... because people then have places to put more animals and have less supervision. It is all related. The places where animals are treated worst are where the most children will go to bed hungry tonight.
And neither one is any more okay than the other. We live in the richest society in the world, and there is NO excuse for a child or an animal to go to bed hungry, ever. To be without a safe place to be, ever. There is NO excuse for cruelty to or neglect of any living thing. It has nothing to do with what living thing that is, and everything to do with what WE are as a people, and frankly on that basis, we suck.
susan
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I too feel terrible for the child or children that go to bed hungry. I just thought this was something that needed to be sent to our animal friends. If people dont know they cant make a difference whether it affect children or animals.
Doesnt matter this is a horrific story of animal abuse!!!!!!!!!!
Whether it be a dog, cat, cow, chicken, horse, sheep, guinea pig......they are animals and ARE a lower priority than a CHILD....period.
I don't condone animal cruelty and it is wrong....but my concerns are the children over and above any animal.
Take care of that child and many of societies ills would be minimized.
What children are those? The children that aren't in this story? Did I miss the part where they said "we found hungry children there and left them because we were only there for the dogs?" Perhaps that's it. I just missed the part where there was a choice to be made between whether we have to abuse one or the other. We can't possibly be expected, as the richest nation on the planet, to take care of our children AND our pets, so we have to choose, right? Do right by one and then decide that our abuse and neglect of the other doesn't matter? Maybe we should all start starving our pets this week, and that would somehow make life better for neglected children?
Or maybe we just have to say, at every turn, that animals are so much lower than human that it gives us the moral right to abuse and neglect them, because being a higher life form comes with the privilege of not caring about the harm we cause to any other life form? Because of course, higher life forms need to abuse lower life forms because it makes us so much more evolved.
We can certainly agree on one thing, and that is that taking care of children in a proper way would help a lot. But that would have to include stopping the abuse and neglect of animals in their environments. Children who are raised in a place where they are exposed to ignorance, cruelty and neglect with respect to animals are permanently damaged. Brutality is brutality. It causes irreversible harm whether it is directed at the child or at an animal in the presence of that child.
The same people pass or don't pass laws that create the conditions that have so many humans in poverty and so many animals ending up in shelters. One of the reasons that we are seeing these situations turn up at greater frequency is the economic crash which was anything but an accident and anything but a disaster for those at the top of the economic food chain. The effect on families and their animals has been that they have lost their homes in incredible numbers and the options are for someone to try and find them a home, or the shelters to kill them.
Every day people I know are in shelters pulling animals out. And every week there are stories about people walking into the shelter with a dog while they're there. The mother invariably insists the dog is a "stray" (that saves them ten dollars that they'd be charged to dump a dog they admitted they was theirs) while the children who have obviously grown up with that dog are sobbing over it until it is pulled away from them. Maybe you'd like to come and hang out at a shelter some time, and then you can tell those babies "don't worry, they're going to kill your friend, but that's okay, because you're a human and you matter "more" than that animal you've known all your life that's being killed because your parents can't or won't take care of it." Maybe that would make that child feel better, you think?
Whether it be a dog, cat, cow, chicken, horse, sheep, guinea pig......they are animals and ARE a lower priority than a CHILD....period.
I don't condone animal cruelty and it is wrong....but my concerns are the children over and above any animal.
Take care of that child and many of societies ills would be minimized.
All Gods creatures are created equal and we are the stewards of them all. It's thinking like this that is the 'cause' of societies ills.
And.....BTW children are no more important than other human beings either. This is something that is brought up all the time and I, as are all human beings, are equally as important on this earth as a child is.
"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us".
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