I’ve been watching on YouTube people who find animals in desperately bad condition and take them in and restore their health. You couldn’t see some of those animals and not feel sorry for them, if you have a heart. They perform major surgery on these animals, and treat them for mange and take other measures to help them. The difference in the animals once their health has been destroyed is remarkable. It makes you feel good to see it. But I’m wondering how far we should go in helping animals. It seems like a lot of country people only view animals as useful, and as long as they’re useful country people take care of them. They get a lot of loyalty from their animals, too. A barn full of hungry cats are much more grateful for food than well fed house cats. I like seeing animals restored to health, but I’m wondering how far we should go with it. Should we try to cure sick mice? Gophers? Ants and mosquitos?
Well, people love animals so it’s the emotional aspect of saving animals. If someone sees a cute baby animal who’s injured they are just prone to trying to help it. It’s the cuteness/helpless factor which tugs at peoples heartstrings.
When I was a kid, my dad got us a house. Then we started getting gophers in the front lawn… My dad used to catch them by the old “tried and trued” method of sticking a garden hose down their holes and turning on the water. He waited with a plastic container and when the gopher crawled out of his flooded hole my dad scooped them up in the container. Instead of killing them, he took them out to an empty field, far way from houses and let them go. That’s the way people are.
The answer your last question is that there are certainly people in the world who would not harm ant’s or mosquitoes or any other living thing. Obviously, no one is going to bring an injured insect to the vet to put a cast on it’s leg or get some medication for it. But I can easily see someone trying to save a mouse.
we must look after all animals
I’ve thought of this too. There r so many animals out there that need help. I think we should at least feed them and give them medical care. I feed squirrels. I wish I could bring them inside with me.
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