Animal Welfare

If you have a pet animal then no doubt it plays and has its place in your life and heart—even if you don’t have a pet you’d still be reminded that animals exist and contribute in one way or another to society. Animals have their plight and role to play—which me might ask is what—and to what degree do we need them—and what do they offer.

Friends of Nature

It’s easy to see how animals have their place in nature and the role they play as a vital link in the evolutionary chain of life. They are so important that without them humans wouldn’t survive or probably even be in existence today. They provide so much in helping us. They help us in work and play, for food and survival, medicine and learning more about ourselves and our role on the planet.

They are friends because they make us aware and can bring out the best in us—for example responsibility in looking after them and treatment worthy in care and compassion and love like we give to our children or another loved one.

They have a natural instinctive intelligence along with displays of emotional behaviour that at times is right on cue as if it was meant to be—their feelings and instincts are strong and it’s that animal power of healing that makes us whole and can bring out some of the best qualities of human nature as a result.

Cruelty and ill Treatment

Animals like us are a part of life and so they to have their rights and place on Earth. The delicate balancing of nature’s kingdoms of which the animal kingdom makes up a large portion has to be maintained and looked after by us the custodians, if the Earth and life on it is to survive now and in the future.

One of the most pressing issues today and throughout the past is the appalling acts of humans in the cruelty and ill treatment of animals in one guise or another. Whether the reasons are for greed, domination over a lesser one, or hatred, anger, or for selfish entertainment and sick pleasure, or some other awful reason it’s all the same.

Animals give unerringly. They have always been a source of food for human survival and where it serves that purpose in a proper situation and for the right reasons that’s not a bad thing in itself, including humane ways to kill an animal as well as treating them right while alive.

However when an animal has been cruelly treated it reflects a callous lack of care and responsibility towards not looking after them or treating them with kindness and regard. When we come across a photo or see an animal that has been ill-treated there is an aura of sadness that goes right to the very depth of their being. Their sad eyes sometimes even teary, their demeanour, their lacklustre and whole body looks devitalised and only half the beautiful and happy creature they are when treated naturally and given freedom and care and love.

What’s worse is the animal’s pain is that deep it becomes emotionally psycho affected—and that sinks in and spreads and causes its behaviour to change. With ill-treatment we see all too often when an animal loses its freedom, or gets hit for example, it naturally wants or does try to protect itself and with the only means it’s been born with instinctively strike back, in anger or aggressive behaviour it wouldn’t normally display or alternatively eventually it just gives up. It suffers from ill health badly— anxieties, depression, sickness, its spirit of life, its natural ability to survive, love, and feel secure, and free, and normal are gone.

The endangered species list is being added to all the time. Animal welfare is a necessary part of society and life, which means animals thankfully are being recognised for more than being just a creature and part of nature to dominate and control and wipe out. They have their feelings and foster goodwill and help to keep human nature on top of things and answerable to themselves about their role they play in helping to preserve life and nature.

The Animal Environment

Animals live in different environments, some natural and some wholly unnatural. Some are caged and live by no choice of their own in unhealthy and unkempt environments, or are captive, or in an environment that they are not suited for or can adapt to—however when they are in their element, in their natural habitat or as pets, like hanging out of a car side window for example, or in the back of a pickup truck, or even up in the sky parachuting down-to-earth, or in a boat on the water—or simply playing and getting up to mischief at home—they are the most wonderful providers of fun and joy that anyone could ever ask for to have to brighten up their day, so they deserve to be treated rightly no matter what.