I know I have talked about my live in companion before. His name is Gilligan. And odd name you say? Well for my generation who grew up with Gilligan's Island, perhaps it's not. He is my little buddy, as the Skipper would have said.
In cat years Gilligan is approximately the same age as I am, early 50's. He is steadily affectionate, though he has his moments of nipping. I am not sure what that means to a cat, but I think that he believes in some way that I am his feline mother. Since cats communicate so differently from us, posture, body language, the look in their eyes, the swish of a tail...you have to be able to read them.
Gilligan does not 'nip' out of meanness. It is his way of talking. Either it means "Back off, you've crossed the line" or it means some totally cat. He listens and obeys as well as any pup, though he would be insulted if I shared that with him. He plays fetch, sometimes with straws carried just like a dog would carry a stick. He misses me when I am away, and I get the full share of his happiness and disapproval that I was gone.
How anyone can dislike cats? It just means to me that they have not lived with one and cared for them. They love, they miss, they mourn, and they are happy as much as any person or dog would. They just express it differently than a human or a dog.
I have come to believe that all animals feel love, grieve and share happiness. I have seen enough proof in watching elephants, otters, lions, birds...to believe that humans do not have the exclusive on feeling. It is arrogant to the extreme that we can believe that we are better than all the other animals on this planet because we have a bigger brain.
That does not mean that animals are less. What they feel is pure because there is not greater thought behind, or reasoning. It is simply feeling. And if they can love, grieve and remember, that means that they have just as much right to life and the right to live as we do.
Society as as whole, decided years ago that animals are simply property. That they have no feelings, no fear, no grief. That is a lie that must be corrected. We have no right to use them for experimental purposes. If we would not do it to a human, then we should not do it to them.
They are hunted as a prize or a trophy. You just killed someone's mother. Just because they can not stand up and scream "You killed my mother!" Does not mean that they do not feel their loss, or anger at their death.
It is horribly egotistical of humans to place ourselves above another species because we can walk on two leg, converse and destroy with impunity.
We are failing to follow God's purpose on this planet, mostly out of greed and the need to place ourselves as the most powerful species on the earth. We are no more worthy of God's love then the other creatures who share this world with us. Otherwise..why would God have tasked Noah to take 2 of each animal aboard the ark? He wanted to preserve them as well.
It is only man who decided that we were better than,. It is only man who hunts for sport . It is only man who places himself at the top of the food chain. Animals don't care about power over another species..only man does.
We, who have the greatest responsibility to preserve all of God's creatures, have failed in so many ways.
It was entrusted to us to preserve and protect. Instead it is abuse and slavery that we have succeeded in.
This has to change, or we have failed as the protectors of God's children. Why? Because we are NOT his only children.
If they could speak for themselves they would,. It is up to us, the caretakers, to preserve their right to live, and respect them as fellow children of God.
Believe and love. Believe and share. Believe and protect.
K
In cat years Gilligan is approximately the same age as I am, early 50's. He is steadily affectionate, though he has his moments of nipping. I am not sure what that means to a cat, but I think that he believes in some way that I am his feline mother. Since cats communicate so differently from us, posture, body language, the look in their eyes, the swish of a tail...you have to be able to read them.
Gilligan does not 'nip' out of meanness. It is his way of talking. Either it means "Back off, you've crossed the line" or it means some totally cat. He listens and obeys as well as any pup, though he would be insulted if I shared that with him. He plays fetch, sometimes with straws carried just like a dog would carry a stick. He misses me when I am away, and I get the full share of his happiness and disapproval that I was gone.
How anyone can dislike cats? It just means to me that they have not lived with one and cared for them. They love, they miss, they mourn, and they are happy as much as any person or dog would. They just express it differently than a human or a dog.
I have come to believe that all animals feel love, grieve and share happiness. I have seen enough proof in watching elephants, otters, lions, birds...to believe that humans do not have the exclusive on feeling. It is arrogant to the extreme that we can believe that we are better than all the other animals on this planet because we have a bigger brain.
That does not mean that animals are less. What they feel is pure because there is not greater thought behind, or reasoning. It is simply feeling. And if they can love, grieve and remember, that means that they have just as much right to life and the right to live as we do.
Society as as whole, decided years ago that animals are simply property. That they have no feelings, no fear, no grief. That is a lie that must be corrected. We have no right to use them for experimental purposes. If we would not do it to a human, then we should not do it to them.
They are hunted as a prize or a trophy. You just killed someone's mother. Just because they can not stand up and scream "You killed my mother!" Does not mean that they do not feel their loss, or anger at their death.
It is horribly egotistical of humans to place ourselves above another species because we can walk on two leg, converse and destroy with impunity.
We are failing to follow God's purpose on this planet, mostly out of greed and the need to place ourselves as the most powerful species on the earth. We are no more worthy of God's love then the other creatures who share this world with us. Otherwise..why would God have tasked Noah to take 2 of each animal aboard the ark? He wanted to preserve them as well.
It is only man who decided that we were better than,. It is only man who hunts for sport . It is only man who places himself at the top of the food chain. Animals don't care about power over another species..only man does.
We, who have the greatest responsibility to preserve all of God's creatures, have failed in so many ways.
It was entrusted to us to preserve and protect. Instead it is abuse and slavery that we have succeeded in.
This has to change, or we have failed as the protectors of God's children. Why? Because we are NOT his only children.
If they could speak for themselves they would,. It is up to us, the caretakers, to preserve their right to live, and respect them as fellow children of God.
Believe and love. Believe and share. Believe and protect.
K
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