It’s the time of year for lists, as we saw yesterday with my own top ten posts. One of the best lists I’ve seen is from PETA, the animal rights group, offering the Top Ten Most Karmic Moments for Animal Abusers in 2008. And what a list it is!
* A hunter tracking a deer he shot falls off a cliff.
* A woman using a .44 magnum to shoot MICE shoots herself and a bystander.
* A guy striking his dog with a gun manages to shoot himself.
This is the feel-good list of this holiday season, and I’m dedicating this post to my own rescue dogs and cats.
My one regret is that nowhere on the list does a bull defeat a matador and leave the ring amid wild cheers, heading for a peaceful retirement. Well, maybe in 2009.
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Above: Actress Pamela Anderson in a PETA shirt, April 25, 2008. REUTERS/ Jim Young
Below: Combo shot of animals I see in my own home.
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- Posted by What’s the difference between killing dogs and deer hunting? | HuntingThe one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.
- Posted by RLMA man’s dog stands by him in prosperity and in poverty, in health and in sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground, where the wintry winds blow and snow drives fiercely, if only he may be near his master’s side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer, he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the roughness of the world. He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince. When all other friends desert he remains.
When riches take wings and reputation falls to pieces, he is as constant in his love as the sun in its journey through the heavens, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him to guard against danger, to fight against his enemies; and when the last scene of all comes and death takes the master in its embrace and his body is laid away in the cold ground, no matter if all other friends pursue their way, there, by his graveside, will the noble dog be found, his head between his paws, his eyes sad but open in alert watchfulness, faithful and true even to death. –George Graham Vest
I only think the third one is karmic. The second one is funny, but at the same time anyone who can shoot mice with a handgun is pretty impressive, although I guess she was only “attempting” it.
- Posted by GeoffWow, Robert, you really got them worked up on this one. I feel cheap with my “deer in the headlights” joke. Pam’s headlights that is. Get it?
- Posted by TimGrowing up I wasn’t always kind to animals. I used to kill ants by the hundreds just for fun, smack fish off rocks, light mice on fire, and broke broomsticks over a cat’s back once. Now, as an adult, I’m completely disgusted by the terrible things I did and became shocked when I realized as much life and intelligence in animals than is present in most humans.
Seriously, we take this planet and its inhabitants for granted, like it’s all here for us to chop up, burn down, and shove into our fat mouths. Not me, not anymore. I’m a vegetarian today and I wouldn’t harm a fly. Now, an irreverent, animal-abusing human on the other hand… Let’s just hope I never catch anybody in the acting of committing the same atrocities that I have. I wouldn’t forgive them any more than I’ve forgiven myself.
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