Dr. Reese Halter: Humans and Animals - An Inseparable Bond Greyfriars Bobby (Mod: Reese Halter forwarded me this article a few weeks back, and Ive been hanging on to it because I thought it would make a great Thanksgiving Day post. I also believed that it might strike home here in Sierra Madre, a town where so many enjoy the companionship of their dogs, cats, birds and other animal friends. Not to mention those many interesting visits we receive from all the wild animals who live in our hills. Especially the bears, our celebrity creatures who somehow always manage to bring their paparazzi news choppers along with them. Have a great Thanksgiving!) This week as the brutal War Against Nature rages on - the conscious world fought back as hundreds of thousands of people from around the globe united in their disgust of a meaningless, callous woman named Melissa Bachman as she gleefully boasted of killing a lion. Apparently, she has an aversion to owning a digital camera and a fear of being unarmed and up-close with a wild beast. Hundreds of millions of people around the globe love and protect animals. And animals know it and show their unstinting respect and love for humans. I dedicate this story to each and every person who believes its time for an amnesty with the Animal Kingdom - now! Over 150 years ago a Skye Terrier named Bobby became an icon known as Greyfriars Bobby for mourning his masters loss. Bobby belonged to John Craig an Edinburgh policeman who was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard cemetery. For 14 years Bobby sat on his masters grave until he too died, and was buried close to his master. Hows that for loyalty? In 2006 Miguel Guzman died in Central Argentina, his German Shepherd named Captain ran away from home and has not left his graveside since. Hows that for faithfulness? How did these dogs know where their respective masters were buried? Renowned conservationist Lawrence Anthony died on March 2, 2012. He dedicated his life to rescuing and rehabilitating elephants in Zululand bush, South Africa. Anthony was famous for his gift of calming these magnificent beasts when they were upset, earning the moniker: Elephant Whisperer. Two distinct herds, which had not visited Anthonys home for at least a year and a half walked, singled filed, for over 12 hours and arrived within less than a day of one another to say good-bye to the man they loved. Elephants are known to grieve and mourn their dead for many days. At least twice in our short history (that I am aware of) honeybees have attended their beekeepers funerals. In 1934 when Sam Rogers died in Shropshire, England - his bees paid their farewell at his graveside funeral. They landed on a nearby tombstone and as soon as he was buried they departed. When John Zepka of Berkshire Hills near Adams, Mass. died on April 27, 1956 - thousands of his bees clustered inside the tent at the open grave site to pay their respect to the beekeeper who never wore any protective gear. As his coffin was lowered into the earth - the bees left the tent and returned to their hive on Zepkas farm. How did the elephants and bees know their trusted and loyal human friend had perished and furthermore where to go to mourn their loss? Their collective consciousness knew -- thats how. Humans currently have dominion on Earth but unless we agree to stop The War Against Nature there will be no elephants, tigers, lions, rhinos, orangutans, polar and grizzly bears, bluefin tunas, seahorses, sharks, rays, dolphins or whales left. And as Chief Seattle of the Suqwamish and Duwamish so eloquently put it: If all the animals were to vanish mankind would die from a great loneliness of spirit. Moreover, without apex predators to remove old and weak prey, diseases become epidemics and ecosystems collapse, quickly. Theres a nauseating sense of entitlement by certain inconsequential, male, big-game hunting, billionaires and their offspring i.e. Bob Parsons of GoDaddy and Donald Jr. and Eric Trump; and the nation of Japan -- who on December 1 intends to launch its tenth consecutive campaign to slaughter whales in the Great Southern Ocean within an international whale sanctuary in contempt of the Australian courts ruling that whaling is illegal. Its clearly time for The War Against Nature to end because if all the animals die, we die! This holiday season please give the ultimate gift - life - by supporting any or all of these worthy organizations: Sea Shepherd Australia - Operation Relentless, Peta, Humane Society, Orangutan Project, International Elephant Project and Wolf Song of Alaska. sierramadretattler.blogspot
Posted on: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 17:27:30 +0000
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