tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004423696675838467.post161861963578867955..comments2024-03-14T02:24:22.876-07:00Comments on Essay Daily: Talk About the Essay: A Short Essay on Animal DistressUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004423696675838467.post-42695502968432643592010-11-08T19:15:48.589-08:002010-11-08T19:15:48.589-08:00This is possibly a terrible thing to admit in a pu...This is possibly a terrible thing to admit in a public forum - but I frequently find animal distress harder to bear than human distress. Something to do with the sense that we, as humans, have more agency. Or at minimum the ability to comprehend our world, however bad it is, in a way that our furry friends simply can't. <br /><br />I saw a cat leading four kittens - barely big enough to trundle along behind her - around the periphery of an exurban California Applebees parking lot last year and while everybody else said "oh, cute, kittens!", all I could think of was the long odds, the near impossibility in coyote, hawk, snake and automobile country, that this momma cat would see all four of those into adulthood. <br /><br />And then I wanted to genetically trace that momma cat back to the person who originally didn't have their cat spayed and give them a solid punch in the nose.Kirk Wislandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16631610091264855313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004423696675838467.post-87326448107971465302010-11-03T13:53:15.330-07:002010-11-03T13:53:15.330-07:00& if you're interested in the origin of th...& if you're interested in the origin of the journal's name: http://static.ashland.edu//riverteeth/introduction.htmAnderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13162102610439637214noreply@blogger.com