Do they have rights?

By Carol

Yes, so today I've "stolen" Rico's blog to post some of my thoughts. This will be my first time, but not my last! Sorry Rico darling!

Recently I've been having many common tests (in fact, my whole month was FILLED with them), and I've been working really hard academically and musically. Common tests are something like your usual tests, just that they fly in so fast and furiously every week like a dog doing super-fast agility! And just today, I had my geography test, and most of it was on global warming, how to conserve land and water and technological advancements etc.

Not very fun, I presume you'd think. But after reading this chapter, I just realized that almost, okay, don't be shocked, 80% of the animals living on earth will have to find new homes almost every fortnight. Yes, every fortnight. And why is that so? Well, for one obvious reasons, we humans are destroying their homes for OUR selfish needs. We are indirectly bringing harm to other animals as they all depend on each other (you know, the food chain). Sad isn't it?

Imagine, one day, someone comes down on a plane and drops a bomb onto your home. You'd be shocked and traumatised! And what if you'd have to suffer this EVERY fortnight? Horrifying. Well that's what these animals are going through. Deforestation, etc etc. That's a lot you know!

Also I've been coming across many articles about animal abuse so far. The latest one came from my friend, Michelle's facebook. It was about this man, dragging this dog by the tail and then dumping the dog off the roof. The video taper was LAUGHING. What is the world coming to. What is it? Just because the dog is weaker, they want to bully it. It's as if they are monsters trying to establish and show off something to the world. Show off what? That you're a tyrant? A bully? A maniacal psychopath? Let them try that if it was a stronger and fiercer dog. But then again, it takes a coward to be a bully.

It's so unfair. We have laws protecting humans from all these abuses, yet the punishment for abusing animals is just so minimal. A fine? What sort of lesson will it teach you? Teach you that you can get off the hook by paying money? Please. A life is priceless. Do you know the meaning of priceless? That means that it is too valuable to admit of being appraised something of inestimable worth. That is what life is. Priceless. You can't pay to bring back a dog's life. Going to jail can't bring it back either. Hanging or death penalties can't bring it back to life either. NOTHING will be able to bring it back. That's why a life is priceless. You can live, but it's only a once in a lifetime thing. There is NO second chance in life. Not just a dog, but any living creature's life is priceless.

Sometimes I wonder if loyalty is a good quality. Imagine sticking with a person and refusing to leave a person who has tortured you, until death do both of you apart. That is something EXTREMELY hard to do. But dogs possess this quality that even humans cannot compare. This is loyalty. Sticking and loving a person regardless of what he or she has done to you. THIS is unconditional love.

That's why animals are so beautiful. Maybe not all are beautiful on the outside, but they definitely are in the inside.