Today while roaming the interwebs after work, I came across a link that contained a video of an orphaned baby skunk who would lovingly follow a Roomba vacuum cleaner. Then, my Facebook feed contained its usual panoply of discarded and abused puppies and kitties, needing homes and funds for medical expenses. Orphaned bats, koalas struck by cars; articles about endangered beasts both large and small. The last straw was a link (which I did not click) proclaiming that it contained pictures and/or video of a snake that, when decapitated, bit its own body.
I just cannot read any more.
The creatures. They suffer. And so often, at the hands of Man.
People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
We do our very best to make sure the creatures under our care do not suffer.
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