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,
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> 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
>