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Piglets in the current Thai floods |
The world is currently seeing some really serious flooding. The Philippines, China, Taiwan, Australia, India, Pakistan, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand are some of the countries presently affected. First priority is obviously to save human life but animal life is also important and it's good to see how much people try to save our fellow creatures.
In many cases people try to save animals because they are stock and worth a lot of money to them, like pigs, cows, horses and chickens.
In other cases people strive hard to save their pets like dogs, cats and birds. This has nothing to do with money. This is love, the kind of love that is so strong people think nothing of risking their lives to rescue their loved ones.
Nowhere did I see this demonstrated so magnificently as in the big Japan earthquake, tsunami and floods. Some Japanese pet owners refused to budge, would not flee to safety without their dear ones. And the Japanese disaster saw some amazing animal survivals, like the dogs found floating on wreckage miles out at sea - or the dog that stayed to look after another dog that was injured. All were rescued.
And people's pets are not only cats, dogs and birds. Pets comes in many shapes and sizes like horses, pigs, monkeys, kangaroos, elephants, buffalo, rats, mice, rabbits, ferrets and many more.
I say thank you to those people who do save pets in disasters like major flooding. There are numerous volunteer organisations that do a splendid job at not only rescuing but also rehabilitating animals. This was seen in the Japanese disaster with Japan Earthquake Animal Rescue and Support, a coalition of three groups united to provide shelter and rescue .
These groups have been rescuing and homing animals in Japan for many years. They have a strict no-kill policy for all the pets they rescue. I like this. It make such good sense - unlike the system in other countries where they kill animals if they can't sell them within a certain time.
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