Love Beyond Comprehension by
LOVE ME, LOVE MY DOG
BORN FREE
Puppies born inside a cramped cage in a lorry when their mother was on the way to a dog meat market. There are countless examples of mistreatment of animals worldwide, it happens daily not only in third world countries. Shockingly, dog meat is still legal to be served in civilized countries nowadays.
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What are the solutions?
Treating Symptoms?
Or curing the root problems?
HOW to achieve it?
CHANGES
With time, Education will start to make a difference in mindsets, culture is not formed in a single day and it will also need some time and patience for an update. People tend to resist the term CHANGE, while an update is easier to accept.
In short term:
Rescue mistreated animals.
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In long term:
Change the mindset of people through EDUCATION, such that ABUSE is replaced with RESPECT.
A guilty
conscience
needs
no accuser
Education is the key to wake the conscience up, such that we do not need to remind the abusers, let their own conscience do the conviction job.
​EDUCATION is not CONDEMNATION
Parents set examples for their children but it does not mean the second generation will blindly follow. I knew some older people that were born in Hong Kong during the battle time when eating dog meat was still allowed there. Their parents ate dogs but they and their siblings had never consumed dogs. They did not like the idea at all and made their own choices.
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We just simply wait hopefully for that time to come slowly, or can we shorten the time and let this day that dogs are free from an agonizing death to arrive earlier? Education is what can make it happen sooner. The job of education is to change the mindset and not condemnation.
SUPPLY & DEMAND rules set the foundation of economics
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The graph shows 2 curves.
The red one is the Demand curve.
The blue one is the Supply curve.
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When the price reduces, demand increases.
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The opposite happens, when the price reduces, Supply decreases. There is less incentive to produce and provide, as the profit is not attractive.
What we want to encourage is not Case 1, but Case 2.
When there are fewer and fewer people interested in consuming dog and cat meat, a reduction in demand will also pull down the prices, up to a point that the sellers will find selling them is no longer profitable. Then less and fewer sellers will continue selling it. It is a cause and effect CHAIN reaction.
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The rule of economics and its chain reaction will be the hidden FORCE that accelerates the speed of the cultural ´´update´´. Bullfighting and eating humans´ best friends are not cultures that can sustain.
COLLECTIVE EFFORT
Unity is Strength
Some luckier dogs were rescued at the last minute before being slaughtered and cooked in some inhumane ways. They might be farmed for meat, however, many of them are stolen pets with owners that love them, as well as female dogs that were used to produce puppies and sold to restaurants when they were no longer fertile.
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Many dog shelters in China are usually volunteered by a single elderly person who spent her lifetime savings and adopted 300 to 500 rescued dogs. The shelters survive by donations and some help from volunteers. This does not sound too bad. Can it be better for both the dogs and their generous caregivers?
​Just petting 30 seconds per dog:
How many hours are needed for 300 dogs?
Almost 2.5 hours! Basically, the dogs will be fed and receive limited affection and extra care.
Which will be better for the dogs?
As well as for their caregivers?
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One individual overloaded by 300 dogs.
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100 individuals take care of 3 dogs each.
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150 individuals take care of 2 dogs each.
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300 individuals take care of 1 dog each.
Collective Effort is far more sustaining than the individual effort by an overloaded superhero. If each of us is willing to give a helping hand, the power of collective effort is immeasurable.
Rescued dogs saved their owners
There are plenty of real stories that doggies adopted from shelters saved their owners. We never know when our kindness will be paid off one day when we are the ones in need.
PASS IT ON
You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
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John Bunyan
​Most of us are blessed to be able to make our own choices. God granted us life and freedom of choices, what choices are we going to make and what actions to take?
Feeding feral mother cat and her kittens in our garden half a year before Du´s passing.
If we love an animal, it knows.
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The possession of great power necessarily implies great responsibility.
William Lamb
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
Saint Augustine
The essence of love is kindness.
Robert Louis Stevenson