(09-28-2018, 03:29 PM)Catherine Wrote: I don't think they respect the land or the creatures in it.
The woman who owns the orchard land suspected me (this was in early 2012)
She accosted me saying damage had been done to the traps and did I know anything about it? I had only just arrived back from a whole day out with Misty.
I answered, "Did that happen today?"
She ummed and aahed...
"If it happened today, " I said, "Then I haven't even been here and have been out in the woods with my dog all day."
(How to lie even though I hate lying. However what I said was true!)
Then she started to explain to me why they set the traps...
"We don't like the nasty Crows and Magpies. We like to support the beautiful songbirds."
It was Easter Sunday. I asked if she'd been to Church. She said yes.
"What do you think Jesus would have done? Watched them suffer or set them free?" I asked. At that point I knew I was implicating myself but had to say it anyway.
She didn't have an answer.
That was her rationale. The Crows and Magpies were mean, the songbirds were lovely. So the suffering of the birds was a racial discrimination.
It seems they have no understanding or ability to see the natural balance of the wild.
