Ignorance!

I was very angry when I came across a video posted by Lancerlord in Harro.com. Someone in Arabia had put a duckling on a speaker and played extremely loud music and laughed when the poor little creature got frightened and bewildered. How cruel and ignorant!

Although I am not an expert, I believe that most animals have acute hearing as examplifed by this observation. One of our friends, Kong, loves to play the piano. However, he has what I call "heavy hands" for each time he played the piano he would appear to be pounding on the keys like the way some mothers pound chillies when they cook curry! Each time he played the piano in his home in Melbourne, his dog, Robin, would bark! However, whenever my sister, Ean Ean or I played the piano, Robin would not bark! He would look at us with expressive eyes as if he were enjoying the music!

As animals do not have the faculty of speech, the Creator must have compensated them in some ways - acute eyesight, hearing or agility. We have observed how someone who is blind has acute hearing or great sensitivity to touch like Helen Keller.

Papa had always taught us to have empathy for people and animals. Before anyone tortures an animal, he should put himself in the animal's position. This is why I strongly advocate that whoever tortures an animal must be punished in the same manner. If he gorges out the eye of the animal; let his eye be gorged out! If he belts an animal, let him be belted and so forth. Only then can some sense be driven into some of these ignorant people and we put a stop to animal abuse.

Mahatma Gandhi was right when he said, "The progress of a nation is measured by the way her people treats the animals!"

Gan Chau