It is a natural instinct in all creatures that they love and care their offsprings.
In India's leading daily English newspaper, this news was really positive in the way that we human beings have forgotten that not only human beings, all creatures love and care for their children. It is a very common perspective that in animals the only mother take care her children but as this news says that in Gir Sanctuary an Asiatic lion has single-handedly raised three cubs. The cubs were barely three months old when their mother got electrocuted while entering a farm. The cubs are now aged two.
This happened because they were living in their natural habitat. But when human beings interfere in the natural life of any animal for their selfish purposes, it becomes impossible for animals to explore their natural feelings towards their children.
How are we depriving animals of this natural instinct of love and care?
We can understand this by some examples
Pet Culture
Raising a pet has become a fashion all over the world and people keep pets for companionship. No doubt a pet lover take care of his/her pet the best, but the main concern is that do we ever think from animal's point of view? What actually a pet feel? It is not easy to understand a pet's feeling but it is a very natural thing that all creatures love to live in their own community and pet like dog/birds or aquarium fishes also a sentient beings and obviously would prefer to live in their community if have any choice.
Puppies are separated from their mother and ready for sale to so-called animal lovers
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Whenever anybody wants to keep a pet like a dog he prefers to bring a puppy so it becomes easy to make him friendly and the owner of a puppy or so-called animal lover takes care at his best, he doesn't want his pet to suffer any pain. But, a pet lover never thinks of a pain/shock he has given him in his tender age and this is the pain of rupturing a bond of mother-child love! This pain can be easily experienced by us by just thinking that how a mother and a baby would suffer if a newborn baby of human being separated forever within a week from his mother.
This is not the only suffering but just a start of endless suffering till death. A pet can never live his natural life but only dependent on his owner, just like a prisoner dependent on jailer for all his needs. A prisoner might have committed some crime but these innocent animals don't.
Consuming Dairy Products
Yes, consuming dairy products also responsible for the same crime we human beings are doing knowingly and unknowingly. Calves are always separated from his/her mother so that we can steal the milk of animal for our consumption. In most of the cases, male calves are sent to the slaughterhouse for calf leather and we never care the pain we give to mother and calf by separating them forever within a week or less after being born.
Calves are on the way to slaughterhouse
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There are other similar examples where this crime happens like train an elephant calf for our selfish objectives, killing a baby got for food ( As I came across a post where a person was dedicating a recipe of mutton of a baby goat to his mother on mother's day!), killing newborn chicks in egg industry etc.
These cruel examples of breaking the bond of love in mother-child of any animal for our selfish needs make us an inhuman instead of a human being.
Yes it isnt a nice thing to do to the animals. They will be sad :(
I am so deeply touched with this "Important Post" and the topic that has great significance and relevance in the lives of every creature born. Nature's Right for parenting!!! But...this is ruthless world...none is spared !!! whatever the reasons be!!!...
Struggle for existence...continues..!!!
Thank you for raising such an important issue. I've always felt awkward at the thought of taking 'pets' from their mothers. I've always grown up around pets and I adored them but as an adult, when I chose to take an animal in to my life, it will be from a shelter. I couldn't bear the guilt of separating a baby from its mother for purely selfish purposes.
I feel ashamed of how human beings mistreat animals, just because we believe that we are the owners of everything and everyone. Self-centeredness is what moves man to respect nothing. We hope that every day change the way of thinking of humans, otherwise we will not have a planet.
Thx Friend!
I'm really against the pet culture. That's why I advocate adoption as much as I possibly can.
It's so sad to think that these babies are taken away from their mother. Here in sweden they are just 12 weeks old when sold off to families who want a cute toy.
There is no humanity left in human. It will be correct to say that we are not human at all.
Very insightful. We should think more about how what we do will affect others.
really animals are part of our ecosystem and as such everything that happens to them has repercussions on us, we are a single system, and it is a duty to live in harmony. excellent publication, thanks for sharing
Raise me up
Dear Chetan,you are absolutely right. After being born the initial time on earth needs to be spent in close contact with the mother and the same during the childhood. The same applies for humans. Right after the delivery, the infant is in shock after leaving the womb, which was the world to him/her for 9 months. In the first moments he/she needs to be close to the heart of the mother and hear its beating, a sound he/she was accustomed to during the pregnancy and represented the sound of life and peace. The bond between mother and child is unbreakable, and nobody and nothing shall hinder it. Motherly love has no race or species. It is infinite like the universe. Love to you all
Good read. Helps keep our emotions and desires in check. The desire to own a pet seems to be a selfish one. I agree with you, I think when most people by a pet they do not think of the pain they may be causing that pet. Instead they are thinking 'how happy this pet will make me'. Perhaps the problem with us humans. Too selfish, we go walking about the day thinking, 'how can this benefit me' or 'me first'. When we strip this 'self' then we can be happy. Thank you for this contribution the to platform.
In Germany, ther's a growing movement to keep male chicks alive too. But the eggs bred in this way have not found their way to the big supermarket chains yet, maybe they never will.
keep the male chick alive is the traditional way. they keep the female for eggs and the male for meat. It is not new, only a marketing campaign so you don't feel guilty eating eggs.
Yeah, it has been the traditional way before chicks for eggs and chicks for meat were bred separately (just like with cows). The separation started in the 1960ies when meat was started to be produced the industrial way. Male chicks bred for eggs had no use as meat deliverers so one began to kill them directly after the hatching. This is still standard in the meat industry.
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Not only is it the case of animals, also among humans who are enslaved by one another, and often without realizing it.
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El hombre debe respetar el derecho de los animales.
Existen animales que pueden ser tratados como mascotas; como lo son perros y gatos sin ser enjaulados y/o maltratados. Puedes tener un caballo bien cuidado y con todas sus comodidades. Pero nunca debes tener un pájaro enjaulado, un mono encadenado, un león, tigre, puma o cualquier otro felino enjaulado. Puedes tener incluso una Guacamaya libre y dándole alimento. Ella vendrá por tí.
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La columna vertebral del caballo no esta hecha o evolucionada para ser montada por un ser humano, por lo tanto el uso de caballos u otro ser equino ....no es etico. No se trata unicamente de el factor indiscutible de tratar bien o mal a los animales, sino el echo de propiedad. Propiedad = esclavitud. No importa lo vien que se trate a un animal , la mera interferencia es erronea.
you sharing good post bro..