U.S. Troops Find Abused Cheetah Cubs

I couldn't agree more. Seeing Third World reality might have the same effect on our spoiled liberals that seeing a prison had on Richard Pryor. On one of his comedy albums, he talked about how he used to complain how terrible it was that America had so many prisons, until he spent a couple of months filming a movie in an actual prison and meeting the prisoners. He said his new attitude was, "Thank GOD for prisons!!"

He said, "One guy murdered an entire family with an ax. I asked him, "Man, why'd you do that?!" "They was home."

I'd love to deal with this Ethiopian SOB myself. I notice that he also had a hawk with a broken wing, which I seriously doubt that he took in out of compassion. I take in homeless and handicapped parrots, and there used to be a pet store nearby with a beautiful Amazon that wasn't for sale. He was afraid of people and had one wing that hung down uselessly. The store owner told me he'd belonged to a guy who didn't like the sounds he made, so he'd hit him with a stick and broken his wing. I tried for two years to get him to tell me that guy's name and address, just so I could personally demonstate how much it might hurt to get your bones broken with a stick, but no luck.

"What a sad and disturbing picture. We reveal ourselves and our character in how we treat the small and the innocent."

If you are talking about how we treat "small and innocent" human beings, I concur. If a person is kind to other human beings, chances are great that the person will be kind to animals as well. If a person is kind to animals, this does not necessarily hold that the person will be kind to human beings. Hitler was a dog lover and vegetarian.

For an update to this story, see item "Happy Thanksgiving!!!" on this site:

http://www.cheetah.org/?nd=news

A conservation group came through and took action. What a concept! I hope this news balms the souls of other softies like myself. Happy Thanksgiving to all!

His sons, 4-year-old Abraham and 2-year-old Nur, pulled the cubs' tails and dragged them around their sun-parched yard by ropes tied tightly to their necks. Other children followed, poking and teasing the frightened cats.

If the rescue of the cubs is unsuccessful, those kids are going to learn a very rough lesson once those cubs grow into full sized cheetahs.

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