Originally posted by big e
Any number of people do not understand. They have never felt the bond or maybe with busy lives etc.
A lovely story about Martin.
I did a post on the music thread some time ago (a long one of course knowing me) about my first dog, Toby, I had as a child. A dog that saved my life on more than one occasion.
Takes me to mess up a thread ie the music thread but they were kind on that thread too.
I was talking about a song called Old Shep.
Toby went to RSPCA when we moved from Sydney to Melbourne and mum told me he would go to a good home. I'm not too sure that he would have and when I think of how dogs were put down in those days … heaven forbid not my Toby.
Any wonder I cried all the way on the train from Sydney to Melbourne.
My eccentric gran who idolised me as the spitting image of her son and my Toby I would never see again.
Big e; obviously still some sadness there, so sorry. We all have animal stories we'd rather forget, just think how critters generally die in the wild - mostly not in a nice way - and they are quickly 'tidied up' by other critters.
I recently was quite shocked to find out that farmers who love and cherish their 'working' dogs, need to shoot them at the end of their working lives because they do not make good domestic pets.
As to the way we treat our fellow sentient creatures:
Just one example: I read a lot, love history, but every time a war comes up I think of the suffering of horses through the centuries, nay millennia, who bore those soldiers into war, who died the same deaths as their 'masters'. When I was in England last there was a film, later a musical - which was
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rigeur to have seen - called 'War Horse' and there was a large sculpture on one of the important buildings on the Thames showing the horse - I could not go, drive, past that without thinking of the perfidy of humans. I never saw film or musical.
We also eat meat from animals which are purpose-bred; so I think our relationship with animals, generally, is a little fraught, hence it warms the cockles of our hearts to befriend some of them, in particular when the affection is returned.
I'll next report from England where there is also a new family member, a dog! and it has worked miracles.
Go well
Taurisk
