Animal Crackers in My Soup
Two Legs: Heather and Chopper have a great BBC penguin gag.
I met a very nice lady from a local animal shelter the other day. I don’t recall specifically which shelter it was, but that’s really not important anyway. I observed her talking to others in the room about the shelter she represented, and she made it a point to mention, again and again, that hers was a “no-kill” shelter.
This elicited the usual oohs and ahhs from the crowd, as if shelters that don’t put unwanted animals down are somehow so superior to shelters that do.
But the term “no kill” is a lot like the term “pro life.” It distorts and misrepresents the reality of the situation.
My youngest son was fussing after the cats, who were attentively stalking the mockingbirds, who were feasting on the hundreds of insects wafting up from the street garden. We naturally moved closer, and saw a light fuzzy area near the mailbox. It was moving…moving a lot.
(Photo Credit JanetLee)
Heather @ April 4, 2008