Handicapped animals - should they be saved

I consider myself an animal lover, and somewhat of an advocate. I have adopted all my animals from bad circumstances or shelters. I have paid dearly out of pocket to bring these animals back to health. I am a firm believer in spaying and neutering and it makes me sick when people allow their pets to have litters of puppies/kittens. I always give a generous donation to the SPCA. However, I am an animal lover not a friggin freak!

Sunday the ever suffering husband I took our darling son to a Llama/Alpaca animal rescue/sanctuary. What a wonderful place, they had rescued (of course) Llama and Alpacas, but beyond that horses, mini-horses, roosters, chickens and bunnies were also rescued. I thought what generous and truly selfless individuals. I gave a donation and proceeded to admire these wonderful people who give so much of themselves.

My son noticed the bunnies and ran over with unbridled excitement. I noticed one of them was lying helplessly in a cage. I questioned if the bunny was ok. A woman told me beaming from ear to ear “that is Casio, he is a quadriplegic” hhhmmm, I though, why would you keep that bunny alive, is that even humane? What kind of life does a bunny have when once a year it cannot hop around and give eggs to all the good boys and girls. It would be better off dead. I thought nothing further of the dumb ass rabbit and enjoyed watching my son interact with the Llamas.

What came next was heartbreaking. I almost felt sick. As you know my faithful few, all of my blogs are the truth and nothing but…so here it is. I came across (what I falsely thought was a basket full of straw). In the basket was a cute hen. A woman informed me it was a silky hen. I actually never saw a hen I would consider pretty, but this one surely was. I tepidly asked if I could touch it. I was told I could. I complimented the woman on her well behaved bird…It was not well behaved, it had a broken back! Yes, another quadriplegic. And she mentioned probably mentally impaired. I was scared of this woman, how the hell do you know if a hen is mentally impaired. Does it not know its abc’s at the age of two? Did it fail the Iowa test? I thought the rabbit was bad. But a hen is just totally crazy, above and beyond the norms of reason! That borders on the brink of insanity! I am sure a great boa and nuggets could be made from “Tessa.” I think she would prefer to go out in style knowing she helped feed and glamorize a family!