http://comment.straitstimes.com/showthread.php?t=581
Helga Koh is right. I've made friends with an elderly Malay couple who regularly look after a particular tipear in my neighbourhood. Thanks to that cat, we commune as animal carers blinding racial, linguistic, generational and social differences.
This is organic - tons better than orchestrated inter-racial bonding. And likelier to endure as long as a catalytic animal exists.
Too often, the calloused squeamish get their way with ridding 'lowly' life forms deemed 'unhygienic' and 'pesky'. They are likely to raise children who replicate their irrational fears of harmless animals they project as 'dangerous' and 'in the way'.
Would they develop into empathic or abusive (not only to animals) adults thus conditioned? Mr Goh Han Chuan (Nee Soon Zone F RC Chairman) should respect animals and concerned carers rights instead of allow animal disrespecters their cruelty.
In the spirit of Ahimsa (no harm to life), stray-animal deciders should heed Mahatma Gandhi's dictum that a nation is judged by its treatment of animals. Stray animals are social/bonding/educative issues, not a simple problem of killing 'pests'.
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Why are we killing the 2 STERILISED cats? Have they caused nuisance to be "sentensed to death"? Are they spreading disease? Have they bitten someone?
Maybe we should start killing all the birds cos they are potential spread of Avian Flu.
Let the sterilised cats live their lifes if they haven't cause or "committed" offense that warrents the DEATH sentense. Are you "cat-phobic"?
