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THE ANIMALS DESERVED BETTER!

Aug 17, 2011 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

 

 

Imagine that you are a goat. You are grazing peacefully one afternoon when a van load of stray catchers pull you by the rope and toss you into a vehicle.
At first you are scared, wondering just what is happening. Fear begins to increase. Is this the feared journey to the abattoir that so many other goats had referred to? You wonder whether this is the end.
Then after a few minutes drive, you end up at a pound on the East Coast. This surely cannot be bad. After all they have to feed you in the pound, and you know that your owner will probably miss you and come and rescue you from your captors.
Then you look around the pound and notice the other residents. Mr. Donkey is not looking too well. He is emaciated and seems on the verge of collapse. Perhaps, you say optimistically, they brought him here to fatten him.
You lie down in the pound waiting for your owner to come. Little do you know that the owner is not coming. The pound fee is so costly these days that the owner cannot afford to pay it. So you are abandoned.
Perhaps you will be sold and the new owner will take better care of you. With each passing day those hopes fade, and so too does the life within you. No water, no food and in the end the elements take their toll on you, and you close your eyes and depart into that other world where you no longer have to worry about being interrupted while grazing.
Someone should have been dismissed by now for the fate of those animals which died in a pound on the East Coast of Demeara. Too many wrong things happen in this country and no one is held accountable.
The courts make a judgment against the state, because of the conduct of officials, and the state pays that judgment. It does not cost the person who was responsible for the wrongful act a cent. Taxpayers’ monies are used to settle the judgment.
Who is going to make a noise about those animals that died in that pound and which featured in the front page of Sunday’s Kaieteur News? Is there going to be an investigation? Is anyone going to be held culpable for the deaths of these animals?
Life is going to go on as it always does in Guyana. The animals are dead and gone, and no one bothers about the fact that instead of these animals being cared for in the pound, they were left to die. This is a terrible thing that has happened, and if there is an ounce of humanity left in the leaders of this country, all leaders, they should demand that some investigation be held into the deaths of those animals.
It is wrong thing that has happened in that pound and someone needs to lose his or her job for what happened. Such an injustice cannot be allowed to go without some sort of punitive action, and the right action would be for the person or persons concerned to be given marching orders.
It was wrong in the first place to put the pounds under the control of the police. The police have too much on their hands already than to have time to take care of animals daily. They have not done a good job at taking care of many of their stations and outposts. Just make a visit to any police station and observe the terrible conditions under which ranks have to work. How then can it be expected that these ranks are going to have the time to take care of animals in the pound.
Surely the death of the animals so strikingly captured in the front page photograph of the Kaieteur News should have by now been met with public outrage. Is it because they are animals? Are these not the same animals that are domesticated and which provide so much service for mankind? How can anyone treat an animal like this? Even if it was not part of their duty, someone ought to have seen to it that these animals had some food and water.
You cannot implement a system of catching stray animals and then simply leave the animals unattended. The result will be, as we have seen, death.
Even if these animals had water alone, they could have survived for days. But they most likely died because of exposure and without any water. That is a cruel way to die and the least that can be done is to ensure that somebody is given marching orders.

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