Road Kills.

Road Kills

     One night of the summer of 2012, I was on a dark road, when all of the sudden a shadow crossed my car. After seeing something run pass my car y felt something hitting my car and bouncing out. The car on the lane next to mine also went over to what I first crashed. I got really scared and decided not to stop. After five minutes of driving I realized that what I previously hit, could’ve been a small kid running. My nerves caught up to me and I decided to go back to the crime scene. After realizing everything and seeing the animal, it was a dog. Part of me was calm because many kids run skateboards through that area, even though is very dark.

     When traveling through the roads of Puerto Rico, you can see many stray dogs walking around. Unlike iguanas, for example, dog breeding can be legalized. Using the examples of iguanas, they breed fast and stopping the way the reproduce is nearly impossible. When driving through highways one might see iguanas running around the street and others all splattered on the floor. Controlling dogs, in the other hand can be regulated. People should have some kind of permit to be breeders, if not, the male dog should be castrated. By controlling the reproduction of dogs since their early stage of life, one will be able to stop the excessive reproduction of stray dogs.

     With all due respect, when passing through some poor neighborhood you can see a lot of stray dogs walking, eating garbage and worse, some end up killed in the street. Then the problem comes. When a stray dog is killed on the street, people tend to ignore it and they tend to stay at the side of the road for days.

     Concluding, there should be a law to control the excessive reproduction of dogs and other controlled animals. By having some sort of control over the animals being reproduced, the amount of road kills will reduce. Many states have laws that control dogs. Implementing some kind of law in Puerto Rico will take time but definitely will be worth it. 

      Animal Legal & Historical Center. (2013), Map of state breeding law, Retrieved from http://www.animallaw.info/articles/armpusbreedinglaws.htm. Accessed on February 24, 2013.

Animal Exploitation

Why is there animal exploitation? Is there any reason to abuse animals? Created by the same, yet forgotten what was told. “…Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” God, NIV. A clear instruction, yet so changed throughout time.  Now a day’s people have lost all respect towards nature. Using dogs, roosters, horses and other animals, abusing from them to earn money. In a desperate fight to earn money, humans constantly put in danger the life of many animals.

Manipulating the way families enjoy their time, theme parks like Sea World earn millions a year but abuse from animals. Leaving a dog in a kennel for a year is abuse but leaving a family of Killer Whales in a pool is fun to see. The way society manipulates our minds into agreeing with animal cruelty. Some would say that animals are dangerous and have killed many but usually animals act in self-defense. “Killer whale kills trainer at Orlando's Sea World” a title on NY Daily News. Clearly, not the whale’s fault. People get overwhelmed at the idea that an animal killed a human. First of all, what was a Killer Whale doing in a pool? After deeply thinking the idea that humans do anything to earn money, it becomes easy to understand the way animals react by feeling restricted to their natural impulses.

Concluding my point, undomesticated animals should stay in their natural environment. Yet other animals like the dog, which have a famous quote “a dog is a man’s best friend”, is a type of animal that can live peacefully with humans. Humans need to understand the beauty that lies behind each animal, yet to respect them in their precious environment. One might be able to succeed in training a wild animal but at some point that animal might do a treacherous act. God made the animals for people to enjoy them, clearly respecting them and treating them the right way.

Sources:

Helen Kennedy, (February 24, 2010), Killer whale kills trainer at Orlando's

Sea World; whale Tilikum linked to two other human deaths. NYDailyNews.com. Accessed on February 10, 2013. Retrieved from http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/killer-whale-kills-trainer-orlando-sea-world-whale-tilikum-linked-human-deaths-article-1.168269#ixzz2KVv62B6u.

            Moses, (1450-1410 a.C.) The creation. Biblegateway.com. Accessed on February 10, 2013. Retrieved from http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+1%3A28&version=NIV