Helen Trevelyan Says:
"I
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 28, 1988
THESE ANIMAL LOVERS
ARE CRUEL!!
LOVE animals, but I loathe animal lovers." There is more sense in that remark, made by a famous statesman, than at first
How strikes home!
often do and must win over before any real can be made. By rash animal lovers help or hinder the headway progress of kindness, I wonder? and thoughtless action, they squan- Too frequently the latter, I fear. I der money, which should be used hold these people guilty of cruelly on behalf of the suffering, in litiga-
tion. to animals:--
he or
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Before calling ourselves animal lovers we should consider very carefully if we are really worthy of that title... This, I confess the bickering, Do we not only enjoy animals, the ill-feeling has depressed me but sacrifice ourselves when neces
than down-right sary for them? How many of us, infinitely more opposition, which is bound to be if it were a nuisance to rescue or care for a pet, would cancel a proved wrong in the end.
"Together we stand, divided we party or curtail a pleasant visit? fall," was never more appropriate- ly applied than to this movement!
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How many indeed not only talk, but
behalf? How act, on their many have the courage to recog-- nise, reveal and rectify still thriv- them not nbuses against ing caring whether this means losing their very livelihood as it so often
must?
1. The sentimentalists, who keep
5. The Affected those who, be Fido, toothless, blind and deaf, long
4. The Exhibitionists, the type after he should have been put to
choose an attractive death painlessly. Simply because who, unless they receive full, per- cause it pleases them to be seen
she (usually she!) cannot sonal acknowledgment for their with a dog,
underta e a re- specimen, quite regardless of their bear the pain of parting, quite re- actions, will not
about an im- ability to look after it or its chance gardless of the poor animal's form or help bring
of "leading a normal, happy life. provement.
Very often this type of person shrewdly said: misery in hanging on.
will confine a Great Dane, Borzoi, Red Setter or Alsatian to a small town flat in order to raise exclama- tions of (misplaced) admiration upon being seen out with it.-
Thus creating war in their own 2. The squeamish, who, rather than face facts, will not read, or camp, splitting those oh! so pre listen to, or look at anything sug- cious numbers who, unless they They ery pull together toward a common gesting ill-treatment. feebly: "Oh, I know it's all too, too end, can never hope to achieve any- dreadful; please don't tell me thing worth while and lasting.. about it." Thus, in saving their own worthless skins, they subject. a fellow creature to slavery torture.
and
3. The fanatics, who, in a wild, undisciplined attack on one and all, alienate the very people one might
Until there is more humanity among humanitarians, animals will continue to suffer.
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6. The Unimaginative those who, properly concerned for their own especial pets, do not trouble about the fate of others. For ex- the pitiful spectacle of Why cannot societies working to- ample
the caged bird,
inevitable ward a common goal cut out petty the
of creatures confined to personal problems in the giant need misery
menageries and amuse- for bringing about reform for cages in
ment parks, the plight of the per- animals?
forming animal, subjected to a hopelessly natural existence. called upon to execute impossible, abnormal tricks.
"I can tell it blindfold ..
The fate of the cruelly trapped, and all those poor beasts ruthlessly exploited for man's selfish gain.
As the late John Galsworthy so "The moment it comes to trying to save beasts suf- fering at the expense of a definte class of men and women the re- former is right up against it
Pause, therefore, before perhaps all too glibly counting yourself an animal lover.
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