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Conference misery::feline_v1

Title:Meower Power is Valuing Differences
Notice:FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY
Moderator:MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO
Created:Sun Feb 09 1986
Last Modified:Tue Jan 11 1994
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5089
Total number of notes:60366

3750.0. "Why? How? =(" by JJLIET::JUDY (Hot child in the city) Wed Jun 27 1990 09:25

    
    	I hope I don't depress anyone this morning with this note,
    	but this is really the only place I can air things like
    	this.
    
    
    	One day last week one my way to work as I was getting onto
    	route 3 I saw a large box on the side of the ramp and in the
    	middle of the road was what was left of an animal....with
    	cream color fur.  Only one thought popped into my head, but
    	I tried not to think about it too much because I couldn't
    	really tell what kind of animal it was.
    
    	Then this morning I get onto Rte3 and about 1/8 mile down the
    	road (so not far from the instance above) was a dead kitten
    	on the side of the highway.  The poor thing couldn't have been
    	much more than 2 months old.  It being the morning rush on
    	Rte3 I couldn't stop because *I* could have been killed.
    
    	Why?  Why do people subject a living, breathing creature
    	who wants nothing but someone to love them, to such an
    	obvious and tragic fate?  How can they go home to the momma
    	kitty (provided they still have her too) after leaving her
    	babies like that?  How can they *possibly* live with themselves?
    
    	I mean, for crying out loud, I get upset with myself if I 
    	forget to leave water for a day for my four!
    
    	I just don't understand, and it really depresses me.
    
    	JJ
    
    	PS. thanks for letting me get that off my chest.
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3750.1NUTMEG::MITCHELL_VWed Jun 27 1990 11:325
    
    JJ, I know how you feel.  God only knows what possesses people to do
    such cruel things.  Look on the bright side....there are alot of people
    like us in this notesfile who go out of the way to care for our furry
    friends and I'm sure we are appreciated.
3750.2all little creaturesWILLEE::MERRITTWed Jun 27 1990 17:1418
    JJ,,it is very sad that some people do this (if I caught them I probably
    would shoot them), but as the other noter said...there are also
    alot of good people who would stop even if they were not the ones
    to hit the animal.
    
    I need to tell you this...two nights ago on my way home I had to
    slam on my brakes to let two of the cutest bunnies go by...I just
    sat and watched them.  Within two miles down the road I again slammed
    on my brakes because three squirrels were playing in the middle
    of the road.  Well the man behind me wasn't to pleased because he
    almost hit me...he started yelling and I said "but I saved the
    squirrels".  He didn't think that was to great,.. so I told him
    I even brake for birds..... so get off my a__!
                              
    There are good people in this world...and hopefully there are more
    good then bad.  Try not to take it so hard !
                          
    Sandy (tamba, poco and Barkley and all god's creatures)
3750.3CRUISE::NDCPutiput Scottish Folds - DTN: 297-2313Thu Jun 28 1990 09:129
    Its a sad sad statement on the value of life in our world.  I echo
    the sentiments of other feliners and thank God every day that there
    are caring folks, like us, in the world to balance out those others.
    
    Sometimes its just ignorance or lack of thinking.  I know some folks
    think I'm crazy, but I make my value for all life well known.  If
    someone who's never thought about it before hears my words, maybe
    they will think about it and agree.
      Nancy
3750.4I too must have hope..USCTR2::CWESTONThu Jun 28 1990 13:5330
    JJ,,,
    
    This is Carol Weston, from Dudley Road in Huson.
    
    I have a gang that fluctuates of strays.  In much earlier notes of this
    year, I have shoveld two kittens off the road this past winter.  I live
    on a small road and why people bom up it occasionally I have no
    idea.....  I have ranted and raved a bit in the past.  I've placed a
    few and healed a couple and hope soon to do the same.
    
    I have a new litter of 5 -- seen four lately, and I just lost another
    one, last nite.  I had fed him just a few moments ago.  We had to go
    out, I turned the corner of my drive-way and there he laid.  About, 4
    months old, yellow kitten.  Just blood on his mouth.  I picked him up,
    he was till warm.  Put him in the bushes till I could get home.  I know
    it was a possibility of two or three cars.  It was raining and
    thundering so it might of not been helped, makes me very sad......I
    wished I had gotten the mom before they were born, but I will before
    another is born and catch the few left (hopefully) before anymore of
    this happens.  SO.........your question I have asked too much, myself
    and hope not to have to ask it anymore.
    
    I do believe with the others.............the awarenance of CARING for
    animals has risen and the caring will continue.
    
    Chin-up........there are more smilly kitties out there to be loved...
    
    				I too have to believe...
3750.5*A NEW GENERATION COMETH*AIMHI::OFFENThu Jun 28 1990 14:2822
    and the new generation is coming.........
    
    My daughter is now becoming an animal activist.  She has grown up
    knowing I am a sucker for a stray or hurt animal (or bird). 
    
    She is now helping me take care of two strays,  she is also *informing
    the neighbors*  in a loud voice how to treat animals.  She caught one
    of them throwing a rock at a cat that happened to be on their lawn. 
    She clearly and loudly informed them that the cat had more right to
    walk across the lawn because it had lived in the neighborhood longer 
    and besides, it wasn't doing anything wrong, just trying to get to
    the woods.
    
    That's my Lynda..........  I am very happy and proud that she will
    continue the caring that we Feliners do for all God's creatures.
    
    I will miss her when she is in college and then in Africa but I know
    she will continue to care for animals.  It is ingrained in her.
    
    Sandi and the Storm Troopers and mother to a new Animal Activist.
3750.6CRUISE::NDCPutiput Scottish Folds - DTN: 297-2313Fri Jun 29 1990 09:202
    re: .5 - ah, the hope of the future!