A Visit to the Vet.

I recently brought my cat to the vet for a teeth clearing. While there I couldn't help but notice the steady stream of people coming and going with their pet dogs and cats and rabbits, etc., and also paying very high vet bills - vet services do NOT come cheap!

And that brought to me the thought that while every now and again you'll read about someone committing some horrendous form of animal abuse, you never read about the thousands and thousands of people who daily take extraordinary care of their pets. I mean an abuse story generates a headline, but a story that Mary takes her dog out for a walk or that someone takes home an animal picked up from an animal welfare organization / shelter or that someone spends thousands of dollars for an operation on their sick pet - that's not news.

So there's a perspective here. For every horrendous animal abuse story that makes the news, there are thousands and thousands and thousands of good news animal stories that never make any headlines at all.