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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