Greetings.
Every once in a while, someone posts a story about some heinous act committed against an animal - typically someone's pet - and everyone's blood pressure goes up a notch, and we spew some venom about "those people"...
I don't know about many of you, but...I've long since been at my crossroads with the human race. Do I think most people are horrible? No. But I can't keep myself from feeling that they are. And so, it's hard for me to handle bad news for its own sake. If we're talking about, say, state-sanctioned cruelty and there's a congressman to call/write/harass, or some sort of covert-ops division of The Cat Site that goes around eliminating "those people" (yes, I'm kidding), then I'm all for it. But being sad and angry with no recourse, well...it hurts. And there's no way to put a band-aid on it.
And so my suggestion is that perhaps any stories regarding animal cruelty, need to be backed up with some means to focus the inevitable feelings we get upon reading a heartbreaking story - someone to write, a rescue handling a particular abused animal, a charity to contribute to...something. Even if we're already doing those things, it serves to temper the blow a bit, to provide some emotional balance to the moment.
Just a thought.
Every once in a while, someone posts a story about some heinous act committed against an animal - typically someone's pet - and everyone's blood pressure goes up a notch, and we spew some venom about "those people"...
I don't know about many of you, but...I've long since been at my crossroads with the human race. Do I think most people are horrible? No. But I can't keep myself from feeling that they are. And so, it's hard for me to handle bad news for its own sake. If we're talking about, say, state-sanctioned cruelty and there's a congressman to call/write/harass, or some sort of covert-ops division of The Cat Site that goes around eliminating "those people" (yes, I'm kidding), then I'm all for it. But being sad and angry with no recourse, well...it hurts. And there's no way to put a band-aid on it.
And so my suggestion is that perhaps any stories regarding animal cruelty, need to be backed up with some means to focus the inevitable feelings we get upon reading a heartbreaking story - someone to write, a rescue handling a particular abused animal, a charity to contribute to...something. Even if we're already doing those things, it serves to temper the blow a bit, to provide some emotional balance to the moment.
Just a thought.