Good one. I once counseled a friend who "rescued" a dog that was walking along the highway. She stuffed him into her car, held him in her house full of cats then found a "good home" for him. I suggested that the well-fed dog was, perhaps, headed home for supper when she stuffed him into her car. She didn't like the sound of that.
Earlier this year, some people at the restaraunt told me that they had "rescued" a raccoon who was 'trapped' in the empty dumpster. They had called the animal shelter which trapped the animal and released it far, far away. "You don't know much about animals, right?" I asked. "Well, no. Why?" "Wow. First off, where there's one raccoon, there's bound to be a family of raccoons. Secondly, the babies probably don't hunt. Third, raccoon's are scavengers. As the dumpster filled up with food-garbage from the pizzaria, the animal was going to become well-fed. When the dumpster became 3/4 full, the animal would probably take as much food as she could, hop out and feed her entire family of babies. It's possible that you starved the babies to death when you 'rescued' the mother from an empty dumpster." I guess not everyone took bio, eh? Lama Bree said, >>This reminds me of recycling: How much water does it take to rinse out that catsup bottle you recycle? (Don't we all make sure are recyclables are all nice and clean before we throw them in the bin) Now multiply that by millions of people rinsing their catsup bottles. How much water is being wasted doing this? So is it better to just throw that bottle in the garbage or recycle it using a gallon or so to make it clean?>>
