>Around here people think it is all right to let the dogs run free but it is
>not. All together too much emotional energy is wasted on pets and not
>nearly enough on family and community.
Just got back from a visit to my oldest son and his girlfriend in their new
little city house. Takes the two of them to pay for it so they have a cat
instead of kids. So sad to see a cat used as a child substitute. It appears
to be really confused about what it is (but I wasn't fool enough to say
anything). We too have the problem of free running dogs - usually people
who have moved to the countryside from the city and think that dogs and
children can just be turned loose in all the "open space". Dead sheep, open
gates and cattle and horses on the road, broken glass in the grass, animals
dying from consumption of plastic. The goat experience must have been
horrendous. Bad enough when we found 23 ducks butchered by a mink one
morning - we haven't kept ducks since. It had chewed its way through
security mesh to get to them.
I think I need to go outside and make a leafmould pile to get this lot out
of my mind. (The kids are already out in the yard hypnotising the Cochins)
I hope people didn't really leave because there was a goat chat. Nice thing
about this list is we can go from philosophy to getting our hands dirty and
back again without anyone complaining
kathryn
