Seems of late to have been too many reports of animal cruelty featured in our news; two ten year old boys threw a kitten into traffic, it luckily survived and was taken in by the people who almost ran it down, a seventeen year old ran down a clearly terrified and distressed emu, running for its' life; in the Youtube footage of the incident you can hear people in the car laughing, obviously having the time of their lives, six ponies slaughtered by some maniac in South Australia. I don't possess the mentality to even begin to comprehend the why let alone a seeming ability to derive some form of pleasure or entertainment from the act.

I hope that parents teach their children to protect and be gentle with the innocent and defenceless and I hope that people will eventually learn to stop indiscriminate breeding of unwanted animals when so many in need already exist. A loving, happy and safe Christmas to all the animals everywhere.