Twitter....

Hello, long time no post!!

I have entitled this post Twitter as I have spent quite a bit of my spare time posting on there and reading the posts and retweeting etc... It becomes quite addictive, but I have to say I have been totally shocked by the content of some of the tweets from the people/organisations I follow on there.  I am very much into animal rights and very much against animal abuse etc and I have read so many dreadful accounts and seen too many awful photos of animals being tortured so terribly stuff that I could never have imagined happening :( it makes me ashamed to be part of the human race if that is what other members can do.  It beats me how anyone would ever be able to sleep again after allowing another living creature to suffer in such ways.  I just do not understand how they can carry on living with the screams of their victims in their ears. I have been disgusted and dismayed to find out that in places like Norway and Denmark, Germany and Holland there are animal brothels!!! These are places where they keep animals captive for the sole purpose of men paying to have sex with them - Jeeze, how can they do this??? What sick and twisted minds they have that they actually get off on the rape of an animal, my view is that there should be mandatory castration for any man who could commit an act of savagery like this.

The thoughts of this being allowed to happen together with all the sights of the poor dogs who are tortured and skinned alive often being boiled alive in the far east because people eat them. I wonder if I am just too good to live in this world? But then if people like me didn't live in this world it would be given over to more cruel people and there would be no one left to teach the children how to love and respect our fellow creatures on this earth.  We are all entitled to live a free life here not one of us having any greater right over another.  When will this be understood properly?

I have to say that sadly I was just as guilty as the next person having taken my children to Sea World to see the Orcas and dolphin shows and I never thought how these poor beautiful creatures were captured and I never gave a thought to the fact that they were forcefully separated from their families in much the same way as the slaves were back in the day :( Honestly I could cry for my ignorance in these matters, there is no way that I would ever support these places now.  Having understood that mothers and babies are torn away from each other and little ones witnessing their mothers being slaughtered next to them, they are so traumatised by this and all because they have no voice to protest or complain or stick up for themselves - now I know more about it I can be their voice and I can help to stick up for them.

I want to be able to volunteer my services to helping animals once I retire so I hope that I can find a worthy cause to devote myself to.