I had a major AHA moment a couple of weeks ago that I have been wanting to write about, but I will get to that one later. I want to talk about the big one from today. I was watching Oprah. She does an Earth Day show every year and I really enjoy them. Today she had the people on that won the Oscar for the movie The COVE. I am glad she did. They showed a portion of the movie and I know I can never watch it....I am too much of an animal lover. The Cove is about....in case there are other that don't know....the slaughter of dauphins in a cove in Japan. They slaughter 20,000 a year. The showed enough that the water turned bright red from the blood. How can anyone kill a dauphin? The meat has so much mercury in it from polution that is not really safe to eat anyway. There is a petition on their facebook page you can sign that will be taken to President Obama and the top man in Japan asking that this slaughter be stopped. I hope that all my blogger friends will sign and help get the word out so this can be stopped. I am including a link to their page where you can just click at the top of the page where it says sign.
http://www.savejapandolphins.org/
One of the men that has been on a mission to save dauphins for I think 20 years is the man that caught and trained FLIPPER. He said that Flipper changed his attitude about dauphins. She died in his arms. He said she killed herself. It seems that dauphins do not automatically breathe - they have to do it consicoulsy. He said she had been depressed and took a breath and looked him in the eyes and did not breath again. Now I know some of you will say "yea, right". But we already know how very closely dauphins resemble humans and I have always known that animals are far more intellegent that most people think they are. There have been so many true stories of dauphins saving humans. I think we owe them.
Since this is a long post I will save my other AHA moment for my next post. I have not been posting a lot lately, but I have been try to keep up with you guys. Have a great evening. Let me know what you think of the two heartbeats that live with me.
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4 comments:
a very moving post.
That was so interesting to find that dolphins/dauphins have to consciously breathe! I think there is so much more to know about the emotions of animals. I have a HIGHLY emotional border/aussie. I wish she could tell me what her feelings are but I have a hunch that would be a LONG conversation!
Nice to meet you!
So sad that this can be happening in our world. I will go and check out the link. Thanks for sharing this story.
I saw that Oprah segment too. It was pretty powerful.
Happy Earth Day (a little late).
jj
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