Judgment
I realised that i judge people according to how to act towards animals. I am not trying to say that if someone doesn't like animals, then i'll dislike them. It's more like, it's alright if you dislike furry animals or think that certain animals are evil.
Oh...i remembered something..let's digress for a while (haahaa..learnt that from Mrs Mark..)
Let me bring you to a wednesday morning during an agrotech practical.
S: I dislike dogs. I think they are evil.
V: NO!! Cats are evil!!
S: No! Dogs are evil!!
Me: they are not evil lahz...
S and V looks at me
S: Yeah..she has both of them...(if i didn't rem wrongly, she said this too..) she's the evil one...
My group of friends laughed..
Me: *huh? me evil?*
ok...back to my subject...
If you dislike animals, you won't keep them and that's fine with me. What's not fine with me is that people look at puppies and kittens and think they are real real adorable. Of course they are. Then these idiotic imbeciles proceed to take them home. Like all living things, they start to get bigger and bigger, older and older and sadly, they often look increasingly less adorable. Next! These imbeciles proceed to chase them out of the house.
Why can't these people just take a step back and look at what they are doing? So what if you say you'll feel sad too but you had no choice. THAT, is not an excuse. Think. If people who brought you up, fed you, and kept you clean and warm decide to throw you out of the house coz you're no longer pretty, or cute, or adorable? And these people proceed to tell you that they had NO choice coz you're getting bigger and bigger. How would you feel then?
I am not an animal activist. I do biotech and i jab and kill mice for my practicals. Then again, that's another matter altogether. My point being, if people will just be responsible, there wouldn't be all those stray dogs and cats in the streets. Especially the cats. Just in case you haven't noticed, the vets that volunteer to do the sterilisation of the cats now not only clip their ears, they also cut off half (or more) of their tails. What's the big deal? Ok. Here's the deal.
Cats are born with tails. Their tails are to help them to balance. It's fine if those borned-stray cats are without tails coz of some genetic mutations. They learn to get their balance without the tail from young. Imagine one which is born with a tail. All of a sudden, it doesn't have a tail. It can't balance, falls off from the tree while escaping from some ferocious animal, gets injured, ferocious animal kills them.
Keeping a pet is a life long responsibility. If you don't think that you have that responsibility, then don't keep it in the first place. Play with someone else's pet. I think, the best way is to have every pet microchiped and if the owner disowns it, a heavy fine should be imposed on the irresponsible owner. In exact, we should stamp out the source of trouble instead of thinking of ways to get rid of the strays..or stray cats to be exact.
-iWrote 9/05/2004 07:06:00 PM
