As I work in Head Start classrooms, I strive to make some beliefs very clearly understood by my students. They learn about what a pet is during their time with me, through the help of my partner animals Guido the Orange Boy Cat and Moon Doggie. They come to know that our pets, animals in-general, are more like us than they are different from us and have many similar needs to ours. They learn that there are differences between us all as well as part of these lessons.
They learn how important is it is simply to care.
We have domesticated these animals, our pets; they are our responsibility. We cannot simply turn them out and let them fend for themselves.
Mayor James Valley, who said last week the city was taking stray dogs to the St. Francis National Forest and turning them loose, has been targeted in a complaint by the Humane Society of Southeastern Arkansas
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2 comments:
The actual video of him ( Mayor ) was mind boggling. And yet as a military wife who has been stationed all over the country, I know it is true. a large number of people out wet here complain about the local AC and they haven't a clue how far Animal Care and Control has come.
It is wonderful you are teaching children about the relationship we have developed with our pets; so many kids today are getting the wrong message. The care of animals has always begun by teaching the humans, so we can only hope. Moon Dog would sure melt anyones heart. Oreo sends greeting to you and yours and says keep up the good work, it begins with the children.....
Hi DL. Nice article and great blog.
Greetings from Austria,
-hanna
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