February 01, 2007
Please do not abandon your animals
Dear Editor:
Once upon a time in Guyana people intermingled with animals mostly domestic dogs and cats that became part of the family tree. In those days they were called pets and each had a name relevant to gender. These pets were well groomed and cared for by owners who took pride with their adopted companions.
What a terrible and grieved contrast today? With no fault of the animals, dogs are regularly discarded by owners for various reasons taken and dumped miles away so that their true to life friend should never return to unfaithful masters. A dog will eternally be faithful until death separates him and master.
These faithful servants called animals are banished and left just about everywhere only to be scorned and subjected to cruelty by people whose mind set compares animals with dirty trenches. Society looks down on innocent stray animals as an epidemic that is contagious and so they rebel with forceful objects to hurt them. Bear in mind, what we don’t like for ourselves we should not like for others, therefore, swing around the situation and these very objects could be used on you.
When you see innocent dogs and other innocent animals roaming the streets daily and nightly evidently with no direction in life but lost, abandon or neglected, just remember that their lives are insecure and survival is an instinct with both humanity and animals. And please do not discriminate against animals just remember they were not blessed like us to speak and have that inborn vocal ability to defend and protect oneself.
It is essential for people to make alternative living arrangements for their pets in times of sickness or foreseeable passing. Please remember these pets are part of the family tree and if none is available to care for them, they eventually turn loose on the streets and pro-create. This adds to over populating the streets as we see it today and the innocent newborn babies will fall pray to a cycle of reproducing.
Let us show great humility and empathy for the voiceless animals that have a biological right to dwell and live amongst us without desolation and torment. If we are truly a nation of different religions then let us rise up and use the power of religion to overcome unkindness to animals and “each other”. We all have compassion and the common sense to use it.
Animals are God’s creation and they have a God given right to breathe, live and share planet earth free from abuse and suffering inflicted by the hands of cruel humans.
Yours faithfully
Zenobia Williams
Animal Advocate
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