I’m back, following another Saturday night I vaguely remember.
I got back home at around 4am, to the most genuine forms of welcome a person can get, my baby Angel, a 3 and half year old Golden Labrador retriever, with hyperactive jumping around, happy eyes, heavy, excited panting and slobbering all over my face.
The same happens every single time I return home, even after running 10 minute errands, and I love it even more each time.
It’s funny, how animals can not only affect you positively, but also become a major aspect of your life and basis for many decisions a person makes throughout his/her life.
My fellow schoolmates, who have seen both “versions” of me, before Angel, and after Angel came into my life, and I can say it astonishes them, each time I do something I’m not known to do, like caring for anybody, humans or animals, considering other people’s feelings before talking, AT times, etc.
I went from an arrogant, violent, short tempered monster, to the guy who sings his dog to sleep, cancels his plans to not leave her alone without thinking twice, spending a major chunk of his pocket-money to buy her fancy stuff.
It made me the person I am today.
I attribute every single positive trait, in me, which I have gained or developed to Angel. She’s everything to me.
That was my story. There a millions of such stories, of animals bettering human lives.
Studies have shown, that kids that grow up with pets around, grow up to be responsible adults. Animals stand for loyalty and the most genuine form of love.
People say that the “mother’s love for her baby” is the most genuine, I do not disagree, but I say, The love an animal has for its master/owner/friend, somebody it looks up to, that look in its eyes, of something I can only describe as an unprecedented amount of love and sheer trust and belief it has in you, IS the most genuine feeling.
I say all this, keeping in mind not only the domesticated animals, but also the “wild” animals, for even they, when they’re rescued and taken care by humans have also exhibited the same characteristics.
No, I do not mean that it’s okay to go near a wild tiger and go “Here, pussy pussy!”.
What I did mean though, was, the animals are our neighbours on planet earth, they too have a right to live. And nothing gives us the authority to take their right to survive away from them.
No, I’m not a vegan, If anything, I’m a strict carnivore, which does not make me devoid of love towards the animals. But, then again, you already might’ve gathered, that I don’t give a tiny rats ass for your judgement on the same.
The point of this, is to spread awareness, to bring forward the atrocities the animals are being put through, Shark-bait dogs, who are used to hunt larger sharks, Japanese harpooning and whaling vessels are doing their bit of wiping out the largest animal on planet earth, lions, tigers, bears, crocodiles for game and skin, elephants for their ivory. Carcasses of dead animals adorn the fat filthy elite, on their person, or their homes.
I must take this opportunity to mention certain groups who are doing their bit, Rescue Ink, big biker dudes with a soft spot for animals, the group has now broken apart, but merged with another one called Packethic, you can find them at http://www.packethic.com/, also the crew of the TV series Whale-Wars are doing their bit in hindering the Japanese whaling vessels and The Animal Rescue Group, you can find these guys through the many social networking websites, also on this very page on the right column.
Also on this page, on the same column, I request you to click on the “Donate Food” button, and answer a few questions, for each one a certain amount of food will be provided for rescued animals.
So, if you’re planning to adopt/give an animal a home, do your research, go ahead, the experience is incomparable, I'm lucky to have an angel by my side at all times, you will learn a lot about life and more importantly about yourself, things/attributes in you you never knew you had. lt makes you a better human being.
If you can't afford to raise an animal, not many of us have the resources or the time, volunteer weekends at shelters, or at a very basic level, take care of 5-6stray animals in your locality, read more, spread the word wider. Support causes in any way you can, monetarily or in any other way you’re able to.
But, do not harm, if u cannot help.
It is not yours, or your fathers or your grandfather’s right to cause harm to an animal.
If you enjoy pelting stones at dogs, throwing cats, hurting animals for your pleasure, you need help, mentally, because you're disturbed and full of insecurities you cannot begin to fathom, and physically, because of the magnitude of sheer impotence you exhibit by hurting a defenceless creature.
And if you’re really unlucky, and you do so, in front of me, I will do exactly the same thing you did to the animal with you, even if it means me going to prison.
And I'm not kidding.
Live and let Live, and don’t finger.
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