I'm sorry I missed getting this into the FML tonight (though I turned on the
computer immediately) after hearing it; but perhaps it is best, and
perspective - someone saying it isn't true!!! - will be had by the time the
FML comes out tomorrow night... but I fear not :(..... I heard this on the
Channel 7 (Kiro) Seattle area news just minutes ago. The subject line
(above) is about all they said. The news clip started with one statement
about a "horrible" or "terrible" animal abuse story in Spokane, then showed
a ferret (as best I recall it as I rushed into the room) in a cage. Then
the newscaster simply said that a at a breeder's in Spokane 80 ferrets were
killed, "stabbed with a syringe-like object". The news then switched to a
clip about a pig, which I blocked out, but the pig, one pig, got at least
three sentences... ...Horse or dog abuse stories get long clips... zoo clips
are regular human interest stories.
Earlier in the news, I think a different channel, there was a report of cows
somehow getting loose on a highway, and as the frightened cows moved about,
several cracks were made making fun of them -- I was talking with my husband
Janos about how sad this made me... which is about when the ferret story
came on...
My heart has broken, so trivial sounding, for these tormented fuzzies. This
is so, so much lower than humans abusing our own, rampant, earth-sucking
race. Nature absorbing nature isn't pretty; animals slaughter each other,
but in nature it seems a gamble for survival is a given... something very,
very, profoundly different then captivating 80 animals and stabbing them
with a "syringe-like" object. This isn't even responsible news reporting,
since no details were given... can you imagine "eighty people were stabbed
to death with a syringe-like object", and on to the next clip without an
explanation? I'm sorry, but this news wasn't something I expected at 11:30
p.m. on Thanksgiving eve....
Someday, when we get past racism, perhaps Homosapiens (which, my dictionary
defines as, "the one and only living species of the genus Homo: man", --
maybe, hopefully, the last???) will get to solving species discrimination,
and levels we've developed... dogs and cats on top, horses maybe next, then
maybe pigs, ferrets far below...
Hey, I'm not an animal activist, though I dashed an earth-carving look at
the prim and proper mink-donning lip-pursing female at QFC this afternoon...
I'm not any type of activist... but I have a deep, seething loathing for my
own human race at times - not good... Those who love, respect, care for, and
communicate with other animal species may hopefully lead the HS species back
to a better place of balance...
I'm signing off to call Channel 7.
This Thanksgiving has given me thankfulleness about my wonderful fuzzies and
all they give me, and my big old cat too, but this story makes me feel
thankfful that I now may know (oh, tell me it isn't true) of terrible
travails of local fuzzies and, if these can't be helped, that perhaps we can
get together as a group in Washington state some day, and help others, and
our own, fur kids.
With a very heavy, confused heart,
Lynn Mc. and the Gang of Seven warm, well fed and pampered fuzzies, while
80 were stabbed somewhere in a hideous hell hole, not too far away...
Call it a "Silence of the Lambs..."
[Posted in FML issue 2138]
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