roseandchan wrote:i don't think it is a lack of education in cyprus . i think lots of people get animals and just don't give a shit. i had an english cypriot neighbour. when i asked him if he knew why english people pic up their dogs crap, he told me he knew why. so i asked him why he didn't do the same as he has a small toddler, he just laughed. luckily hes now moved along with his dog crap.
it is a common coutesy to pick ou dog crap. it is a law here in USA: if they poop, you must scoop. it is bad for the environment to leave it there, spreads disease. ever heard of the plague????
it seems it actually IS a matter of people needing education, on how to care properly for a pet or animal, education in knowing that just because we don't understand what an animal is saying--it doesn;'t mean they are stupid. they just speak a launguage we haven't figured out yet. who's the stupid ones anyway? i hear story after story about animals who were aware of tsunamis or earthquakes before they occured, and "prepared" for them. to me, that seems like alot smarter than the person who is hanging out at home watching TV, drinking a beer, and shocked as hell because all of a sudden the earth started moving under his feet.
i have logged in quiet a number of hours "babysitting" for a bunch of baby gorillas, and i can tell you stories of how intelligent they are. it is quiet amazing. genetically, we are closer to a chimpanzee than a zebra is to a horse. it is disgusting to think of all the animal testing we have done to chimps (and other animals). akin to what the americans did to the blacks when slavery was legal. thank god we moved forward!
