Love of all life -Wildlife Wednesday

Sitting at my computer late this evening, when I usually would have a blog posted, I find that I'm having a hard time focusing on what I want to say. I had originally intended to write about the Big Cats, or Birds of Prey, or the Wolf population. However I feel compelled to write about the recent posts I've have read on the popular social media page facebook.

As you read my blog, you will begin to understand my love and passion for wildlife, hence the day dedicated to just this topic.

Every day I read a post, article or other informative piece of information regarding the plight of our wilderness. Tonight I read how children tortured a small defenceless puppy and it brought me to tears. Tears to the point of sobbing at such horrific abuse, and the torment this sweet baby endured.

I will never understand how the brain develops the ability to inflict such torture, pain and complete lack of empathy for another living creature.


This post isn't intended to educate, or give factual information. This post is to express and evoke a sense of emotion for creatures other than ourselves.

Look into the eyes of your pet. See the life. See the personality. Our fur babies have personalities, attitudes, unique behaviours that make them who they are. Anyone with a pet knows this.

Feel the love. Feel the connection. Look into their eyes and see the life, the profound love they have for their human. The sheer joy they express when you open the door after coming home from work, when they can't seem to get enough of you and follow you from room to room, happy you're there.

Hear their heartbeat when you lay your head on their chest, the life other than your own. Feel their soul when you rest your face on their body, the knowledge that another creature is breathing, thinking, existing that you didn't create. This is a member of your family, a sacred being, a special creature your chose to be part of a special bond, your Family. Nothing is more sacred than the love shared among family.

Now, imagine this life broken. Legs snapped. Fur burned. Head battered and bloody. Tail ripped from their body, or limp and dangling on the ground. Their fearful eyes crying, not understanding why. Not understanding what they did to deserve the brutality.

Imagine this poor defenseless creature stuffed into a garbage bag, knot securely tightened, sitting in the back seat of a car until it is thrown out the window into the ditch, like the trash. Unwanted garbage that no one will miss, laying in the grass, starving to death, crying for it's Mommy, screaming out of fear. Imagine the horror this being is experiencing, not knowing what is going on, with no Mommy or Daddy to protect it, unable to breath. Vivid and horrific, right?

This is happening. Children are torturing pets, domestic animals for enjoyment! And not just children, adults too.

Helpless, defenseless creatures often become the victims of human games. From lighting a kitten on fire, to throwing one out the car window and worse. Whatever you can imagine is happening.

It is the job of the adult to instill the love and care for Mother Nature in the next generation. While one may feel wildlife is not as important as humans, there must also be the realization that wildlife is here for a reason, if only to make people empathetic to life other than their own.

I often think of the creatures living a fearful existence, and hope they either leave their world of torture sooner than later, or that somehow, someway, they will be saved. No life deserves to suffer. No life deserves to live in fear. No life deserves to experience brutality. Ever.

I like to think that while this is my opinion, I'm not alone in my beliefs. I hope there are more people with the desire to protect life rather than destroy it for the "enjoyment" they think it brings. And in fact, there is no enjoyment, just behaviours indicative of deranged and sociopathic individuals.

After all, we are all Mother Nature's Heroes, all deserving of life, together.