[討論] 地藏王的生活

[chiushandy (shandy)]

其實我很久以前就想討論這個主題了,可是不知道要怎麼切入比較好,
後來我在英國實習的時候看到一篇文章，覺得它道盡了一切我想說的,
就直接貼出來囉~文章有點長而且是英文的，敬請耐心閱讀XD

Life in Kennel

Imagine you are young,innocent and vulnerable.

You are taken away from all that is safe and familiar---without explanation.

Members of a different species who cannot speak your language take you and
walk you into a building. As they open the door, you can smell, see and hear
the distress of the others there. You are afraid to go in, but you are roughly
dragged through the doorway and down the corridor.

Shouts and angry voices come at you from either side until you reach your
cubicle. You are dragged inside and pushed back with a foot as you try to
leave before the door is shut. You feel frightened and trapped.

You look around. There isn't much room. There is a hard plastic bed at the
back, and the cold concrete floor is wet where the metal water dish was upset
as you struggled to get out.

In the dim light, you look out through the wire mesh door and see hostile
eyes watching you from across the corridor. It's cold and you curl up in your
plastic bed feeling miserable and alone.

The walls are thin and noises from outside disturb the others in the building
and raise the noise levels until your ears are hurting. This brings someone
in who shouts loudly and sometimes bangs a broom against the wire-mesh doors.

There is no place to hide and you move back to your bed.

Days go past without you leaving this small space.

Every day, someone comes to clear up any mess you've made. Once you have made
a mess, you have to sit in your bed to avoid stepping in it. They hose down
the floor and walls, causing you to jump around to avoid being sprayed. It's
the only exercise you get all day.

The floor stays wet and cold for hours afterwards.

Once a day, they throw in a metal bowl of a food you don't recognise and
don't like the smell of.

The lack of exercise, stress, loneliness and change in diet are taking their
toll and by the second week, you feel terrible and develop diarrhoea and an
ear infection. The vet is called and, after that, your sore ear is roughly
man-handled once a day by unknown hands. You are shouted at if you don't hold
still.

Occasionally, people are shown around. This causes great excitement and noise
that hurts your ears but at least there isn't shouting or banging with
brooms. You look up expectantly but unfamiliar eyes stare in and move on.




Would you want your dog to be treated like this while you are enjoying your
holiday?

Would you want your dog to be treated like this if anything happened to you
and your dog ended up in a rescue kennel?



我覺得，我們在專心做TNR時似乎快要忘記關心地藏王內動物的生活品質了。
蘇老師之所以會說我們做TNR還太早，我猜部份原因很可能是，她認為我們目前還沒有
好的動物收容所來支援TNR的工作，事實上台灣目前也確實沒有。
因為沒有好的收容所，我們只好消極的把捕獲結紮的動物放回街頭，以目前的情況來說，
我們也沒有餘力去關心牠們放回之後的生活。
從人的立場來說，TNR可以成功減少流浪動物的數量，也能改善人類居住環境與流浪動物的
關係，但若從動物的角度思考，除了免除了每年發情兩次的生理制約，我覺得TNR似乎沒給
動物帶來更好的福祉。牠們一樣可能沒東西吃，一樣要對抗汽車、大雨、颱風，一樣可能
被人類虐待。要真正改善流浪動物的生活，還是得在動物福利這塊努力才行~

以上，大概是我從大一加入社團到現在的總心得。
我覺得我整個被動社會他們洗腦得很嚴重XD

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→ GreatPeace:薄弱
→ GreatPeace:試論野生動物的動物福利
→ GreatPeace:(把樓上拖回去....)
→ elle0001tw:XD
→ chiushandy:哈哈 貓狗又不是野生動物
→ GreatPeace:我只想說 收容所生活真的對每隻動物來說都比流浪好嗎
→ GreatPeace:我是覺得對很多怕人的動物來說
→ GreatPeace:進入籠子與和人類接觸對他們來說可能更緊迫
→ GreatPeace:在台灣大多數流浪動物只喜歡他們的餵食者
→ GreatPeace:這樣一來就要說服這些餵食者帶動物去收容所、陪他們
→ GreatPeace:餵他們吃、陪他們玩、最後親自抱著他們給予安樂死
→ GreatPeace:這樣比他們在外流浪更有動物福利對嗎?
→ GreatPeace:如果這些事情由收容所志工來做 那就要讓志工跟些怕
→ GreatPeace:陌生人的貓狗們和志工陪養感情培養到像愛媽跟他們的
→ GreatPeace:感情那樣 他們才會接受收容所志工陪他們玩 餵他們
→ GreatPeace:帶他們運動、跟其他動物互動交朋友 最後抱著他們安樂
→ GreatPeace:死 這樣要花多少時間 從怕人的動物到親人的動物
→ GreatPeace:這樣整合下來有個方法 1.就是捕捉親人與幼年的動物
→ GreatPeace:2.怕人的、離人遠遠的做TNR 3.兇的、對人不友善的
→ GreatPeace:盡快讓他死
→ GreatPeace:不過現在收容所的確是有一堆乖狗和小狗小貓
※ lisaha:轉錄至某隱形看板                                         10/06 00:08

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