Animals

PETA would be a little overwhelmed in our country!  We have a few dogs on our street that are obviously hungry and probably mistreated.  It is very sad, but stray dogs are a pretty normal thing, and kids on the street are not always nice!  But the few on our street bark all night sometimes.  I have even thought about killing them, sometimes when it is 2 am and i'm still listening to them.   However, we will not have to listen to that tonight.  When Kirk brought the girls home from school today, there was a garbage truck with three big dead dogs in it and they were taking the puppies.  It was really sad and Ayden was really upset.  Kirk didn't see it in time to shelter the kids from this sight.  So Ayden came in crying, Addie didn't like it but didn't say much and Annie Lynne said, there are 3 big dogs sleeping in that truck out there.  I love the way we can choose how we look at things.
Sad but a life lesson for us all.  It is really just sad in general the way animals are treated here.  Not everyone but a large precent of the people really just don't care about animals and will be very mean to them.
We went to look at rabbits and I know the man thought we were crazy, Ayden is looking and petting them and seeing which she would love the most and everyone else there is just buying them to eat.  There is nothing wrong with eating rabbits, just culturally a little different since these rabbits are tame and have been taken care of, not just shot in the woods.
From seeing the carcasses hanging everyday at the meat shop to the stray cats and dogs that look pretty bad, and the goats eating at all the garbage dumps; I think PETA would be a little overwhelmed.  I'm overwhelmed somedays by it all.