In my honest opinion to a certian degree I  prefer animals over SOME people. I can
talk to my animals about anything and no matter what I have done they are not
judgmental about it. People kill for NO reason at all.(EX) kids killing other kids
in school because they are ticked off at one another, (EX) People killing
elephants just for the ivory. I have a real problem w/ all of this.
    My son and my family are the most important people in my life however my
animals are the most loyal beings in the world. I do not tell my child how to feel
or what to think he is able to do this on his own, but I do hope I am able to
instill the values in him that ALL life is valuble. My son is only 6 and yes he
has CP but he's the brightest and happiest person in the world and he too LOVES
animals.

Kelly

Betty B wrote:

> Could it be because we know that animals won't turn on us unless there is an
> unusual circumstance, like illness, that causes a change of behavior?  We
> don't have to guard our hearts with animals but we must -- to a certain
> degree -- with people.
>
> What bothers me is the way some care more about saving animals than they do
> people.  We've talked about that on this list before.  This philosophy seems
> to have taken serious root in the past 30 years or so.  I don't approve of
> what seems to be an influence on children to adopt this philosophy -- this
> not-so-subtle message that humans are not as worthy of life as animals.
>
> Ladie must have been a special gal Bobby.
>
> Betty
>
> In a message dated 10/25/2000 12:36:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> > It's a shame that many of us are more attached to animals than to people.
> >  We had a Collie when I grew up named Ladie. There is one man(a neighbor)
> >  from the old neighborhood who is writing a bookk with an entire chapter on
> >  Ladie. When I took
> >  public transportation to spedcial ed. across town, Ladie knew what time the
> >  bus arrived and would be at the bus stop to greet me. She watched over the
> >  infant next door when the mother would put her in the play pen. You never
> >  forgot friends like Ladie. They put her to sleep when I was in college.
> >
> >  Bobby
> >