The news report mentioned in this podcast served as the primary source of inspiration. But in that strange way life works, another seemingly unrelated event also played a role. For the first time in ages, I gave up on a book I was reading because it became apparent within the first 25 pages that the main characters had learned nothing from what they experienced in the first book and the interval that supposedly passed between when it ended and the second in the series began. Because I found that more irritating than entertaining, I deleted the entire series from my Kindle.
I feel equally conflicting, but different emotions when the same kind when natural disasters result in the same kinds of preventable trauma to animals and their owners and those who must save them. On the one hand I feel sympathy for the plight of those requiring rescue. On the other, I feel disappointed that this was necessary yet again. Sometimes it seems like we live in a society that so thrives on the adrenalin rush of crisis and rescue that we lose site of all those willing to engage in the hard unromantic work of prevention. This podcast is a tribute to them.
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